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This volume presents a history of doctrines of the Early Church, written and arranged with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar. J. N. D. Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, and from the end of the apostolic age to the council of Chalcedon. The doctrines of the Trinity, the authority of...

IN the Arian struggle, as we have seen, the question agitating men’s minds was the full deity of the Son, and although this was an essential constituent in the doctrine of the Trinity the latter was at first kept in the background. The Nicene creed, indeed, merely affirmed belief ‘in the Holy Spirit’, and many years had to elapse before there was any public controversy about His position in the Godhead. Nevertheless, a discussion
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