The Trinity

In Scripture

Where the words themselves appear in the World English Bible. Read each in its chapter before drawing a conclusion from it.

In the Imago Dei library

Our own studies: theological synthesis that reads many passages together, written from a stated point of view.

• Love and the Necessity of the Trinity

  A philosophical argument that the Trinity is not arbitrary — that a God who is love could not be otherwise.

• The Monarchy of the Father

  The Father alone as the source of the Son and the Spirit — worked out in Carthage and Alexandria, and carried by an African bishop into a church that confesses it still.

From a reference work

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.