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The official church doctrine of the Trinity to this daywhich is embraced by Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants alikeis that God (=Godhead) is one essence consisting of three co-equal and co-eternal Persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. And he said: Lord [Adonai], if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant (Gen. 18:2-3). Today I will send time with the Holy Trinity in prayer. The unity of essence is not merely postulated by the strict monotheism of men nurtured in the religion of Israel, to whom subordinate deities would have been unthinkable; but it is, as we have seen, involved in the baptismal commission of Matt., xxviii, 19, and, in regard to the Father and the Son, expressly asserted in John, x, 38. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not three Gods, but one God in three persons. Where do we find the Trinity doctrine in the Bible? May he grant you mercy and peace." If the immanent act of the intellect is rightly termed generation, on what grounds can that name be denied to the act of the will? His work is to teach them whatsoever He shall hear (xvi, 13), to bring back to their minds the teaching of Christ (xiv, 26), to convince the world of sin (xvi, 8). It is evident that, were the Spirit not a Person, Christ could not have spoken of His presence with the Apostles as comparable to His own presence with them (xiv, 16, 17). FROM FAITH TO THE TEXT AND BACK AGAIN: MARTIN LUTHER ON THE TRINITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Mickey L. Mattox In the fourth volume of his study of the Christian traditionJarosla, vPe . According to Western doctrine, God bestows on man sanctifying grace, and consequent on that gift the Three Persons come to his soul. Patheos has the views of the prevalent . He is Hypostatic Love. Genesis 1:26 states that God said "Let us make man in our image". 2. It has many interesting teachings but, unfortunately, is a mixture of faith and works for salvation. One explanation only can be given, namely, that the perfection we call fecundity must needs be found in God the Absolutely Perfect (St. John Dam., Fid. FATHER JOHN A. HARDON, S.J. Behold, the Lord God shall come with strength (Is. " Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo . When the fact of revelation, understood in its full sense as the speech of God to man, is no longer admitted, the rejection of the doctrine follows as a necessary consequence. Yet it does not seem necessary to adopt this conclusion. On the other hand,pneumawas often understood in the light of John, xx, 22, where Christ, appearing to the Apostles, breathed on them and conferred on them the Holy Spirit. It is also a great resource for seasoned students of theology who want a refresher. Sprouls bite-size chapters make this book accessible, practical, and relevant. "The Old Testament tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a triune God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Latin theory is a noble effort of the human reason to penetrate the verities which revelation has left veiled in mystery. Such, for instance, is the use of the Doxology in reference to Him. To keep this Ad Rem from getting too long, I will refer the reader to Monsignor Pohles page sixteen and following: The Teaching of the Sapiential Books. Yet the doctrine is found much earlier. In these passages he rejects the Gnostic figment that the world was created by aeons who had emanated from God, but were not consubstantial with Him, and teaches the consubstantiality of the Word and the Spirit by Whom God created all things. We can say the same about two other passages in Genesis where the so-called plural of majesty is found: And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness (Gen. 1:26), and Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one anothers speech (Gen. 11:7). God ordained that YHWH would never once be found in the original Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. When the first Sunday of Advent comes and the new liturgical year begins, the Church once again relives the Mysteries of Christ for a whole year. The former mode of considering them has been the more common since the Arian heresy. Expressions which appear to contain the statement that the Son was created are found in Clement of Alexandria (Strom., V, xiv, P.G., IX, 131; VI, vii, P.G., IX, 280), Tatian (Orat., v), Tertullian (Adv. He also understands it as signifying the identity of essence, will, and action in the Persons. This phrase certainly supposes Wisdom to be conceived as a person. And at the decided hour set my feet upon this earth (Matthew 3:16-17), "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." Together we can continue to help others find joy and meaning in life! In regard to the Divine processions, the doctrine of the first procession is contained in the very termsFatherandSon: the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and Son is taught in the discourse of the Lord reported by St. John (xiv-xvii) (seeHoly Ghost). in Theoph., n. 10, P.G., VI, 861). Found insideThis document's purpose is to spell out the Church's understanding of the nature of revelation--the process whereby God communicates with human beings. xxxi, 4, P.G., XXXVI, 138). Episode 291: Why Should Latin be the Liturgical Language of Western Christendom? In the Apostolic writingstheosmay almost be said to be treated as a proper name of God the Father, andkiriosof the Son (cf. The Fathers supply many passages in which the incomprehensibility of the Divine Nature is affirmed. Teacher Manual. Leonard Feeney) Audiobook CD Set, Commentary on Saint Paul's to the Philippians MP3, Commentary on Saint Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians MP3, Episode 293: To Galatia (and Jerusalem), with Love. Petay., De Trin, V, viii). . The Old Testament give us many hints to God being a Trinity. There are various "canons" of the collection of writings known under the name of "Old Testament". As this point is treated elsewhere (seeJesus Christ), it will be sufficient here to enumerate a few of the more important passages from the Synoptists, in which Christ bears witness to His Divine Nature. the Christian people's sense of the faith." (Catechism of the Catholic Church 250) Even though the word Trinity cannot be found anywhere in scripture there are numerous references to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. A point which in Western theology gives occasion for some discussion is the question as to why the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity is termed the Holy Spirit. Cels., VIII, xv). This standing in the place of would help us to make sense out of the Angels willingness to allow Abraham to adore down to the ground: the adoration was going to the three divine Persons whom they were visibly manifesting. These relations are what constitute the distinction between the Divine Persons. We have in these chapters the necessary preparation for the baptismal commission. Since, in the very same works which contain these perplexing expressions, other passages are found teaching explicitly the eternity of the Son, it appears most natural to interpret them in this sense. 1, ad 2am). Nor is the tradition as to the interpretation of Prov., viii, in any sense unanimous. Mention is often made of the Spirit of the Lord, but there is nothing to show that the Spirit was viewed as distinct from Jahweh Himself. Clement of Alexandria bids men give thanks and praise to the only Father and Son, to the Son and Father with the Holy Spirit (Pd., III xii, P.G., VIII, 6$O). The results to which they were led, though not to be reckoned as part of the dogma, were found to throw great light upon the mystery, and to be of vast service in the solution of some of the objections urged against it. We have seen that they were led to affirm the action of the Three Persons to be but one. It harmonizes, as we have said, with all the truths of faith. Through analogies and types we can form a representative concept expressive of what is revealed, but we cannot attain that fuller knowledge which supposes that the various elements of the concept are clearly grasped and their reciprocal compatibility manifest. cit. Pius IX reprobated their opinions on more than one occasion (Denzinger, 1655 sq., 1666 sq., 1709 sq. More we know not (cf. In the narrative of St. Polycarps martyrdom we read: With Whom to Thee and the Holy Spirit be glory now and for the ages to come (Mart. Indeed, of all revealed truths this is the most impenetrable to reason. God created man in His own image, in the image of God. 6:3; 11:2; 61:1- 2; Joel 2:28 (quoted in Luke 4:17 and Acts 2:16ff. In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The Doxology, To Him be glory for ever and ever (cf. Passing on the advice of Pope Benedict XVI, he d. It is evident that these apologists were seeking to explain the Christian Faith to their pagan readers in terms with which the latter were familiar. As we have seen one at least of the Greeks, Didymus, had adopted this standpoint; and it is possible that Augustine may have derived this method of viewing the mystery from him. Unfortunately, this familiarity with the Trinity is about as far as most Catholics have gone in contemplating God. Enter your email address to receive notifications by email every time we post something to the site. Sand, Nucleus historian ecclesiasticae, Amsterdam, 1668) asserted that the language of the early Fathers in many passages of their works shows that they agreed not with Athanasius, but with Arius. And that is both true and sufficient for us to adore the Three: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Episode 290: Freedom Coaching. I Cor., viii, 4). The early church struggled to put together a workable definition for the concept of a triune God. Sabellius, who propagated the same heresy at Rome c. A.D. 220, was excommunicated by St. Callistus. In the nineteenth century the influence of the prevailing Rationalism manifested itself in several Catholic writers. Proof of the Doctrine from Scripture; III. Vetus testamentum in novo patet the New Testament is hidden in the Old. theol., V, ix, P.G., XXXVI, 141; John Damascene, F.O., I, viii, P.G., XCIV, 828). But to the Greeks it was the Spirit through whose personal presence we live. Epiphanius in the same way asserts the orthodoxy of the Montanists on this subject (Hier., lxviii). Though God the Son was already present in the world by reason of His Godhead, His Incarnation made Him present there in a new way. He is instantly declared by the high priest to be guilty of blasphemy, an offense which could not have been attached to the claim to be simply the Messias (Luke, xxii, 66-71). The words of Gabriel (Luke, i, 35), having regard to the use of the term, the Spirit, in the Old Testament, to signify God as operative in His creatures, can hardly be said to contain a definite revelation of the doctrine. 1910, appendix; J. Reville, Divinity of Christ, c. vi; Menegoz, Etude sur le dogme de la Trinity, Paris, 1898). Equivalently contained in the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa, it was clearly enunciated by St. Anselm (De process. As devout Jews, early followers of Jesuswho eventually became known as Christiansprofessed their faith in one God as well. | Prioress: Sister Marie Thrse, M.I.C.M. This conclusion is held as absolutely certain by all theologians. B. On such a point vagueness was impossible Any Christian might be called on to seal with his blood his belief that there is but One God. The answer of Saint Maximus (c. A.D. 250) to the command of the proconsul that he should sacrifice to the gods, I offer no sacrifice save to the One true God (Ruinart, ed. Show the volunteers who bring you reliable, Catholic information that their work matters. We cannot express this save by attributing to Him filiation and spiration (I, Q. xxxii, a. In regard to the First Person it will not be necessary to give special citations: those which declare that Jesus Christ is God the Son, affirm thereby also the separate personality of the Father. xxx, 20, P.G., XXXVI, 129; Basil, Horn. The transition to the Latin theology of the Trinity was the work of St. Augustine. Eunom., IV, P.G., XLV, 624; Greg. In the Old Testament the Father and the Holy Spirit are evident, but the Son is only alluded to. He proceeds from the Father through the Son. To Whom with the all holy, the good and life giving Spirit be glory and power, now and always, forever and ever. The Greek Fathers approached the problem of Trinitarian doctrine in a way which differs in an important particular from that which, since the days of St. Augustine, has become traditional in Latin theology. As none deny this for any period subsequent to the Arian and Macedonian controversies, it will be sufficient if we here consider the faith of the first four centuries only. Gregory Nazianzen, Orat. Anselm (Monol., 64, P.L., CLVIII, 210), Abelard (In Ep. In Greek theology the order is reversed: the Holy Spirit does not come to us because we have received sanctifying grace; but it is through His presence we receive the gift. On it everything else depends and from it everything else derives. The Trinity in the Old Testament (Part 1): Divine Plurality. If they had had good will, His enemies would have asked Him to explain the passage, which was perfectly fulfilled in Himself, but they held their tongues. Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delightisour duty. Copyright 2004-2020 Saint Benedict Center, Richmond, New Hampshire. ISBN: 978-1-59982-767-4. But in others of the Fathers is found what would appear to be the sounder view, viz., that no distinct intimation of the doctrine was given under the Old Covenant. 1, cited in Clough, Daniel M., Genesis According to the Saints, p. 5). Jean Baptiste Du Sable $ 150.00 - $ 250.00. they considered it evident that God the Father could not have thus manifested Himself (cf. Here, however, it is necessary to safeguard a point of revealed doctrine. xxix, 8, P.G., XXXVI, 84; Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat., xi, 19; John Damascene, Fid. In the next verse the Son is identified as the Lord your God. Trinity, in Christian doctrine, the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. In the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon we find a still further advance. 3), even though the object be external to us, yet the immanent act of love arouses in the soul a state of ardor which is, as it were, an impression of the thing loved. This updated second edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church incorporates all the final modifications made in the complete, official Latin text, accompanied by line-by-line explanations of orthodox Catholicism, summaries of each The Old Testament Trinity $ 150.00. The scope of this volume provides strong evidence that the Trinity is essential for faithful interpretation of Scripture, and for day-to-day living. She is, moreover, described as the worker of all things (panton technitis, vii, 21), an expression indicating that the creation is in some manner attributable to her. This, however, seems to be an exaggeration. Many of them not merely believed that the Prophets had testified of it, they held that it had been made known even to the Patriarchs. 2). Yet the meaning of these authors is clear. Many but not all Christians worship God in the form of the Trinity. But with the Greeks this is not a starting-point, but a conclusion, the result of reflective analysis. So, too, in regard to the mission of the Holy Spirit. The evidence from the Gospels culminates in the baptismal commission of Matt., xxviii, 20. The consubstantiality of the Persons is asserted by St. Irenaius when he tells us that God created the world by His Son and His Spirit, His two hands (Adv. It is found in many passages of Origen (In Ps. Petavius, De Trin., II, ii, 7, vi, 11). An argument of very great weight is provided in the liturgical forms of the Church. St. Hippolytus closes his work against Noetus with the words: To Him be glory and power with the Father and the Holy Spirit in Holy Church now and always for ever and ever. a motionless immensity of oneness. The highest probative force must necessarily attach to these, since they express not the private opinion of a single individual, but the public belief of the whole body of the faithful. 3 Later Christians even used philosophical categories from Greek thought to explain that God had . Without the teaching of the New Testament one would not be aware of the concept of a triune God. B.) We live in the Spirit, and through Him we are made partakers in Christ (Gal., v, 25; Rom., viii, 9); and it is through Christ, as His members, that we are worthy to offer praise to God (Heb., xiii, 15). "People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. Moreover, He is my [Davids] Lord, who is at the same time the Son of the Lord; He is, in other words, both Son of God and God. Greg. De recta sententia, P.G., XCIV, 1424). One of Christian Russias most celebrated icons, the Trinity, by Andrei Rublev, is a depiction of Abrahams hospitality to these three angels, but with a clear Trinitarian interpretation. This canon of interpretation is a standard part of the Catholic approach to the Bible. In answer to the Eunomian objection, that consubstantiality rendered any distinction between the Persons impossible, Gregory of Nyssa replies: Though we hold that the nature [in the Three Persons] is not different, we do not deny the difference arising in regard of the source and that which proceeds from the source[ten katato aition to aitiaton diaphoran]; but in this alone do we admit that one Person differs from another (Quod non sunt tres d ii, P.G., XLV, 134. The conclusion to be drawn is that in some sense God is both singular and plural. The Eastern Orthodox Church claims to be the original church founded by Jesus. The purport of the phrase is evidently to indicate that the Second and Third Persons are not substantially distinct from the First. Yet we are forced to speak thus; for the one Personality, notwithstanding its simplicity, is related to both the others, and by different relations. Ultimately though, one must accept the doctrine of the Trinity on faith and be content to rest in the mystery of God. The New Encyclopedia Britannica: "Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord'-- Deut. dAles, Tertullien, 82-96). But it does foreshadow what the New Testament later reveals clearly when it indicates a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. It would be impossible to be more explicit. Naz., Or. ." With this declaration in 381, which would become known as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, the Trinity as generally understood today became the official belief and teaching concerning the nature of God. Those who would like to read more of our offerings on this tremendous Mystery are invited to view a small catalogue of them on Catholicism.org. Many of them not merely believed that the Prophets had testified of it, they held that it had been made known even to the Patriarchs. Augustine also insists that of the ten Aristotelean categories two, substance and relation, are found in God (De Trin., V, v, P.L., XLII, 913). Found insideIn The Case for Jesus, Dr. Brant Pitre, the bestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, goes back to the sourcesthe biblical and historical evidence for Christin order to answer several key questions, including: Moreover, notwithstanding the neuter form of the word (pneuma), the pronoun used in His regard is the masculineekeinos. We begin at the beginning, Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. The Hebrew for God created is bara Elohim, which has the linguistic peculiarity of a plural noun followed by a singular verb, something which actually does not violate the grammatical rules of Hebrew. orth., I, xii, P.G., XCIV, 849). The Trinity in the Old Testament Posted on February 6, 2018 February 26, 2018 by Edward Dalcour It is usually alleged by unitarian/unipersonal (i.e., groups that believe God exists as one sole person, thus denying the Trinity[1]) that the OT is entirely unconscious to the idea that God is multi-personalthe one God. She also summarizes all of history, from Creation to the end of time. It is one of the mysteries of faith "that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God" (CCC 237, quoting Dei Filius 4). It is of faith that the procession of the Holy Spirit is not generation. Western theologians have never departed from the main lines which he laid down, although in the Golden Age of Scholasticism his system was developed, its details completed, and its terminology perfected. Lowercase less formal designations such as gospel and epistle. Here Wisdom is clearly distinguished from Jehovah: She is a certain pure emanation of the glory of the almighty God the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of Gods majesty, and the image of his goodness (Wis., vii, 25, 26. (See also:Holy Ghost;Logos;Arianism;Monarchians;Tritheists;Unitarians.). xvii, 15, P.G., XII, 1229 etc., etc.). Not a few writers of great weight hold that there is sufficient consensus among the Fathers and Scholastic theologians as to the meaning of the namesWordandWisdom(Prov., viii), applied to the Son, for us to regard the intellectual procession of the Second Person as at least theologically certain, if not a revealed truth (cf. What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. About Saint Mary's Press Rights and Permissions Guidelines Thus, action and passion are different from the permanent relations consequent on them. The Old Testament, the Trinity, and the Mission of Christ covers chapters 1 through 18 of The Catholic Connections Handbook for Middle Schoolers, Second Edition, with the addition of two life issues chapters found only in this guide. All of this shows a plurality of persons in the Godhead, at least as concerns the Father and the Son. So also, in I Cor., xii, 4-11: There are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit; and there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord: and there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all [of them] in all [persons]. While the icon depicts this scene in the Old Testament, Rublev used the biblical episode to make a visual representation of the Trinity that fit within the strict guidelines of the Russian . In addition the Shema, there are a number of other Old and New Testament verses that proclaim that God is one (see God is One).However, the triunity of God is taught throughout the Old Testament, even in the Shema! It is impossible to establish that, in regard of the infinite mind, such a supposition involves a contradiction. Noet., x) says that God has fashioned all things by His Word and His Wisdom, creating them by His Word, adorning them by His Wisdom (panta gap ta genomena dia logou kai sophia de kosmon). Still remaining in the Pentateuch, we come to the Book of Numbers 6:24-27. But the eternal regard by which each of the Three Persons is constituted is not an addition to the infinite perfection of the God-head. The Arian controversy led to insistence on the Homousia. 12): The clearest allusion to the mystery of the Blessed Trinity in the Old Testament is probably the so-called Trisagion [thrice holy] of Isaias (VI, 3): Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of Hosts, all the earth is full of his glory, which is rightly made much of by many Fathers and not a few theologians. Than God Himself will come to His soul scholars into Greek a term in Liberal. 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