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One or Three?

From the father of Jesus to the trinity

by Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Author) Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Volume editor)
©2003 Others 140 Pages

Summary

The study shall demonstrate that the dogma of the Trinity is a product of historical developments. Jesus believed in Jahwe and called him Father. This monotheism was a central subject of the earliest Christian preachings. The contact between the Christianity and the hellenistic thinking and philosophy led to the trinitarian concepts in the second century: the activities of God were interpreted «ad extra», to the outside (the creation «in the beginning» and the guidance over the history of Israel and of the church) as ontological hypostasis in the concept of the «Word» and the «Holy Ghost». In the third century they lost their temporal character and became eternal «qualities» of God himself. Since the fifth century the western Latin theology produced the doctrine of the three persons in God.

Details

Pages
140
Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631503379
Language
German
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2002. 140 pp.

Biographical notes

Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Author) Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Volume editor)

The Author: Karl-Heinz Ohlig, born in 1938, is professor of religious studies and history of Christianity at the university of Saarbrücken. His publications are about the papel primacy, the Christology, the trinity, the Islam and the History of religions.

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