Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a

The author has continued his research of the history of Trinitarian doctrine, the results of which are presented in this second part of the series. The historical and theological survey of the available data offered by primary sources has yielded sufficient ground to argue that the Church Fathers o...

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Main Author: Zoltán Szallós-Farkas
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Language:English
Published: Editura Universității Adventus 2015-12-01
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Online Access:https://publications.uadventus.ro/index.php/thrh/article/view/86
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description The author has continued his research of the history of Trinitarian doctrine, the results of which are presented in this second part of the series. The historical and theological survey of the available data offered by primary sources has yielded sufficient ground to argue that the Church Fathers of the East and West, and the Ecumenical Councils, especially Nicea, had contributed, in a significant fashion, to the formation of two models of the Trinitarian understanding of God by the end of the patristic era (8th century). Their Trinitarian vocabulary, economic perspective, as well as perichoretic understanding of God have to be seen as a major stepping stone towards the crystalisation of the classical theistic doctrine of God. This is to say that Nicean and post-Nicean developments testify to an understanding of the Trinitarian relationship of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit that has been articulated in the language and vocabulary of the Early / Apostolic Fathers, to which new aspects have been added by the Cappadocian Fathers and Augustin. The study has evidenced that a clear chronologically viable ontological anteriority within the Godhead may be seen as being suggested by the language of “eternal generation,” “begotten-ness,” and “procession,” a language the Church Fathers have accepted as theologically appropriate and sound, and deployed it in the wording of the Creed.
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spelling doaj.art-6ba7894da92846c5a64f20409d518afe2023-05-22T07:55:28ZengEditura Universității AdventusTheoRhēma1842-06132784-26652015-12-01102Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-aZoltán Szallós-Farkas0PhD, Associate Professor, Adventist Theological Institute, Cernica, Romania The author has continued his research of the history of Trinitarian doctrine, the results of which are presented in this second part of the series. The historical and theological survey of the available data offered by primary sources has yielded sufficient ground to argue that the Church Fathers of the East and West, and the Ecumenical Councils, especially Nicea, had contributed, in a significant fashion, to the formation of two models of the Trinitarian understanding of God by the end of the patristic era (8th century). Their Trinitarian vocabulary, economic perspective, as well as perichoretic understanding of God have to be seen as a major stepping stone towards the crystalisation of the classical theistic doctrine of God. This is to say that Nicean and post-Nicean developments testify to an understanding of the Trinitarian relationship of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit that has been articulated in the language and vocabulary of the Early / Apostolic Fathers, to which new aspects have been added by the Cappadocian Fathers and Augustin. The study has evidenced that a clear chronologically viable ontological anteriority within the Godhead may be seen as being suggested by the language of “eternal generation,” “begotten-ness,” and “procession,” a language the Church Fathers have accepted as theologically appropriate and sound, and deployed it in the wording of the Creed. https://publications.uadventus.ro/index.php/thrh/article/view/86Trinitarianeternal generationbegottenCouncilChurch Fathersperichoresis
spellingShingle Zoltán Szallós-Farkas
Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a
TheoRhēma
Trinitarian
eternal generation
begotten
Council
Church Fathers
perichoresis
title Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a
title_full Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a
title_fullStr Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a
title_full_unstemmed Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a
title_short Doctrina Trinității în perioada patristică: părinții bisericești și Conciliul de la Niceea – partea a II-a
title_sort doctrina trinitatii in perioada patristica parintii bisericesti si conciliul de la niceea partea a ii a
topic Trinitarian
eternal generation
begotten
Council
Church Fathers
perichoresis
url https://publications.uadventus.ro/index.php/thrh/article/view/86
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