Trinity

Christianity

Also known as: Holy Trinity

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Key People:: Joachim Of Fiore; Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius; St. Gregory of Nazianzus; Saint Gregory of Nyssa; Michael Servetus

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Trinity, in Christian doctrine, the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine of the Trinity is considered to be one of the central Christian affirmations about God. It is rooted in the fact that God came to meet Christians in a threefold figure: (1) as Creator, Lord of the history of salvation, Father, and Judge, as revealed in the Old Testament; (2) as the Lord who, in the incarnated figure of Jesus Christ, lived among human beings and was present in their midst as the “Resurrected One”; and (3) as the Holy ...(100 of 620 words)

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