grants his disciples the grace of adoption through the bestowal of God’s Spirit (cf. Gal. 4:4–7). The first centuries of Christian theological reflection assimilated confessions of both the oneness of God and the triadic form of Christian discipleship with varying degrees of concern for conceptual clarity and logical synthesis. The first major debate concerned with conceptualizing the Christian experience of God as Trinity and bringing into coherence the emphases on divine unity and triadic distinction