The quest for the Trinity :the doctrine of God in scripture, history, and modernity /Stephen R. Holmes.

Name/Title

The quest for the Trinity :the doctrine of God in scripture, history, and modernity /Stephen R. Holmes.

Description

'The history that God is': studying the doctrine of the Trinity in the twenty-first century -- 'In your light, we see light': the Trinity in the Bible -- 'Always with him are his word and wisdom': early patristic developments in the doctrine of the Trinity -- 'From the ousia of the father': the fourth-century debates 1 -- 'The Godhead is by nature simple': the fourth-century debates 2 -- 'Understood by a few saints and holy persons': the west and Augustine -- Interlude: the harvest of patristic Trinitarianism -- 'Distinction in the persons but unity in the nature': the Medieval doctrine of the Trinity -- 'By the testimonies of the scriptures or by manifest reason': anti-trinitarianism from the reformation to the eighteenth century -- 'A transformation which will go back to its very beginnings': the doctrine of the Trinity since 1800. xix, 231 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Author

Holmes, Stephen R.

Place Published

City

Downers Grove, Ill.

Date Published

circa 2012

Publication Subjects

Trinity--History of doctrines.

Call No.

BT109 .H65 2012

ISBN

9780830839865, 0830839860

LCCN

2012027673

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index.