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From Logos to Trinity: The Possible Sources for the Development of the Christian Trinitarian Concepts
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hillar, Marian |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | With Tertullian a major step in the evolution of Christianity was accomplished. He is the first who expressed the constitution of divinity as a plurality of " dispositions " or " dispensations " within the unity of substance defined as a plurality of persons which he termed the Trinity. There was no Christian trinitarian doctrine before him. Two basic orientations were developed, the so-called " low Christology " where Christ was considered an ordinary man who was justified by progress in character and born of an intercourse of man with Mary (represented in the thoughts of Jewish-Christian, or rather Messianic, Ebionites), 1 and the so-called " high Christology " where Christ was considered divine though inferior in status to his Father. The Son and the Holy Spirit were assigned subordinate roles (Ignatius, Alexandria, and Origen). Tertullian postulated one God, not a monad, but differentiated within himself: Logos coming from God through an act of internal generation thus becoming the Son; the Holy Spirit sent by the Father through the Son. Tertullian " s Trinity was not yet the full-blown trinitarian doctrine which we observe for the first time in Augustine " s De Trinitate at the beginning of the fifth century. In addition Tertullian established the Christian eschatological doctrine and that of original sin. We have seen how the Christian doctrines evolved from the original Hebrew religion through the process of assimilation of theological and religious-philosophical doctrines of the ancient peoples into a syncretic religion. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/CBO9781139003971.013 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.socinian.org/files/Sources_Christian_Trinitarian_Concepts.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003971.013 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
