The Trinity

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The Doctrine of the Trinity (Monotheism, Trinitarianism)

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Doctrine of God

Part 2
 

II. The Doctrine of the Trinity

A. Scriptural Monotheism

B. Scriptural Trinitarianism

1. Scriptural Affirmations of the Triune God

2. Brief History of the Doctrine of the Trinity

a. Christological Background

b. Monarchian Heresies

i. Dynamistic Monarchianism / Subordinationism - Arius

ii. Modalistic Monarchianism / Modalism - Sabellius

c. The Church's Rejection of Monarchianism

i. Rejection of Modalism

ii. Athanasius' Opposition to Arianism

iii. Council of Nicea (A.D. 325)

iv. Council of Constantinople (A.D. 381)

d.  Augustine (354-430) on the Trinity

3. Immanent and Economic Trinities

a. Immanent Trinity (God in se, in himself and apart from creation)

b. Economic Trinity (God in re, in relation to the creation he has fashioned)

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