To give one example, when Justin Martyr speaks of the Logos as “another God” (Dial. 56), not only do others in the tradition react with some horror at the term, but he himself immediately tries to qualify it to remove the offense. His articulation, however, is inadequate to the set of constraints within which he is trying to speak, and he is aware of that problem. So, here is the first point from the biblical texts: the doctrine of the Trinity is an attempt to speak about the relationship of Father,