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This article is the sixth in a series called A Digest on the Trinity.
- Nicene Creed
If the portion on the Father was the shortest part of the Nicene Creed, the portion on the Son is its longest. That would be…
This article is the fifth in a series called A Digest on the Trinity.
"We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible."
- Nicene Creed
Perhaps it is telling that the Nicene Creed, the standard of Trinitarian orthodoxy, has its shortest paragraph expositing on the person of the Father. When the church came together in 325 and 381 to decide on the vocabulary to describe the unique situati…
This article is the fourth in a series called A Digest on the Trinity.
In the previous article, we looked at the eternal processions as the way to distinguish between the otherwise indistinguishable persons in the simple being of God. We noted how the Son proceeds from the Father in eternal generation and the Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son in eternal spiration.
However, because these processions happen within the ineffable divine essenc…
This article is the third in a series called A Digest on the Trinity.
In this article, we consider the issue of God’s diversity by looking at the eternal processions within God.
In the previous article, we looked at the doctrine of divine simplicity and how it ensures that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one in the same God and not merely three separate instances of the one divine essence, since the divin…
In this article, we consider the issue of God’s unity by looking at the doctrine of divine simplicity.
The doctrine, much like the doctrine of the Trinity, is based off second-order reflections of the biblical text to make sense of what God has revealed about Himself. Therefore, although the Scriptures make no mention of simplicity, we utilise the doctrine to ensure that our theologising consists of God being independent (Exo 3:14; Job 35:7-…
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