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This volume explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the Patristic Church following the Arian controversy. Rather than presenting the discussion or debates on contemporary scholars, The Trinitarian Controversy presents original letters, documents, creeds, and debates among the Church Fathers and Arius himself to gain a first-hand view of the controversy as it developed...

to the place of the Spirit. Tatian (Or. 7.13) does not clearly distinguish the Spirit from the Logos. The Apologists’ difficulties about the third entity of the Godhead were compounded by the confusion with the Stoic idea of a wholly immanent spirit within creation and the continuing use of “spirit” as a synonym for “deity” (Athengoras Supplic. 16; Tatian Or. 4; Theophilus Autol. 2.10). The works of the Apologists divulge the lack of a technical vocabulary sufficient to describe the eternal plurality
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