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Fundamental Theology Course

Lesson Eight: The Trinity

FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY COURSE

Revelation & Faith

Lesson Eight: The Trinity

Lesson Eight: The Trinity

Learning Objectives - Lesson 8

When you finish this lesson, you should be able to do the following:

  • Explain the Church’s teaching regarding the the inter-relation and personal properties of the three divine persons.

  • understand the creed at a much deeper level

  • articulate the implications of the doctrine of the Trinity for ecclesiology, Christian anthropology, and, in general, our everyday lives.

Key Words - 8

tres personae, unus substantiae
homoousion (consubstantiales)
dynamic Monarchianism
Adoptionism
Unitarians
Modalistic Monarchianism
Sabellianism
Patripassianism
economic trinity
immanent trinity
subordinationism
Arianism
Jehovah's Witnesses

homoiousios
Semi-Arians
Macedonians
pneumatomachoi
filioque
1 ousia, 3 hypostases
1 substantiae, 3 personae
appropriation
generation
filiation
circumincession
Christomonism of the west

VIDEO 8-1:

BELIEF IN THE TRINITY PRIOR TO THE COUNCIL OF NICEA

VIDEO 8-2:

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRINITARIAN DOGMA

VIDEO 8-3:

UNPACKING THE DOGMA OF THE TRINITY AND RELATED TECHNICAL TERMS

VIDEO 8-4:

GOD'S INNER AND OUTER LIVES: THE IMMANENT AND THE ECONOMIC TRINITY

VIDEO 8-5:

THE TRINITY IN THE CATECHISM