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The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion). As the Fourth Lateran Council declared, it is the Father who begets, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds. In this context, one essence/nature defines what God is, while the three persons define who God is. This expresses at once their distinction and their indissoluble unity. Thus, the entire process of creation and grace is viewed as a single shared action of the three divine persons, in which each person manifests the attributes unique to them in the Trinity, thereby proving that everything comes "from the Father," "through the Son," and "in the Holy Spirit."This doctrine is called Trinitarianism and its adherents are called Trinitarians, while its opponents are called antitrinitarians or nontrinitarians. Christian nontrinitarian positions include Unitarianism, Binitarianism and Modalism. While the developed doctrine of the Trinity is not explicit in the books that constitute the New Testament, the New Testament possesses a triadic understanding of God and contains a number of Trinitarian formulas. The doctrine of the Trinity was first formulated among the early Christians and fathers of the Church as they attempted to understand the relationship between Jesus and God in their scriptural documents and prior traditions. There have been some different understandings of the Trinity among Christian theologians and denominations, including questions on issues such as: filioque, eternal functional subordination, subordinationism, eternal generation of the Son and social trinitarianism. Old Testament The Old Testament has been interpreted as referring to the Trinity in many places. One of these is the prophecy about the Messiah in Isaiah 9. The Messiah is called "Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Some Christians see this verse as meaning the Messiah will represent the Trinity on earth. This is because Counselor is a title for the Holy Spirit (John 14:26), the Trinity is God, Father is a title for God the Father, and Prince of Peace is a title for Jesus. This verse is also used to support the Deity of Christ.Another verse used to support the Deity of Christ is "I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed." This is because both the Ancient of Days (God the Father) and the Son of Man (Jesus, Matt 16:13) have an everlasting dominion, which is ascribed to God in Psalm 145:13.Some also argue "Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven." to be Trinitarian in apparently distinguishing between the Lord in heaven and the Lord on earth.People also see the Trinity when the OT refers to God's word (Psalm 33:6), His Spirit (Isaiah 61:1), and Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1), as well as narratives such as the appearance of the three men to Abraham. However, it is generally agreed among Trinitarian Christian scholars that it would go beyond the intention and spirit of the Old Testament to correlate these notions directly with later Trinitarian doctrine.Some Church Fathers believed that a knowledge of the mystery was granted to the prophets and saints of the Old Testament, and that they identified the divine messenger of Genesis 16:7, Genesis 21:17, Genesis 31:11, Exodus 3:2 and Wisdom of the sapiential books with the Son, and "the spirit of the Lord" with the Holy Spirit.Other Church Fathers, such as Gregory Nazianzen, argued in his Orations that the revelation was gradual, claiming that the Father was proclaimed in the Old Testament openly, but the Son only obscurely, because "it was not safe, when the Godhead of the Father was not yet acknowledged, plainly to proclaim the Son".Genesis 18–19 has been interpreted by Christians as a Trinitarian text. The narrative has the Lord appearing to Abraham, who was visited by three men. In Genesis 19, "the two angels" visited Lot at Sodom. The interplay between Abraham on the one hand and the Lord/three men/the two angels on the other was an intriguing text for those who believed in a single God in three persons. Justin Martyr, and John Calvin similarly, interpreted it such that Abraham was visited by God, who was accompanied by two angels. Justin supposed that the God who visited Abraham was distinguishable from the God who remains in the heavens, but was nevertheless identified as the (monotheistic) God. Justin interpreted the God who visited Abraham as Jesus, the second person of the Trinity.Augustine, in contrast, held that the three visitors to Abraham were the three persons of the Trinity. He saw no indication that the visitors were unequal, as would be the case in Justin's reading. Then in Genesis 19, two of the visitors were addressed by Lot in the singular: "Lot said to them, 'Not so, my lord'" (Gen. 19:18). Augustine saw that Lot could address them as one because they had a single substance, despite the plurality of persons.Christians interpret the theophanies, or appearances of the Angel of the Lord, as revelations of a person distinct from God, who is nonetheless called God. This interpretation is found in Christianity as early as Justin Martyr and Melito of Sardis, and reflects ideas that were already present in Philo. The Old Testament theophanies were thus seen as Christophanies, each a "preincarnate appearance of the Messiah". New Testament While the developed doctrine of the Trinity is not explicit in the books that constitute the New Testament, the New Testament contains several Trinitarian formulas, including Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Ephesians 4:4–6, 1 Peter 1:2, and Revelation 1:4–6. Reflection by early Christians on passages such as the Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" and Paul the Apostle's blessing: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all", leading theologians across history in attempting to articulate the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Eventually, the diverse references to God, Jesus, and the Spirit found in the New Testament were brought together to form the concept of the Trinity—one Godhead subsisting in three persons and one substance. The .... Discover the Trinity popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Trinity books.

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    Wolf Rain

    Nalini Singh

    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us on a new adventure in this next novel of the PsyChangeling Trinity series...The end of Silence was supposed to create a bett...

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    Alpha Night

    Nalini Singh

    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking PsyChangeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn’t exist…   Alpha wolf Selenka Durev’s d...

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    Trinity

    Dick Tripp

    The traditional view of God that has been held by Christians for the last 2,000 years is that he exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit not that there are three separ...

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    Stealing Trinity

    Ward Larsen

    USA Today BestSelling Author & Winner of the Foreword Book of the Year Gold MedalWorld War IIthe Manhattan Projectthe Balance of World Power at Stake In the last days of WWII, ...

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    The Case for Christ

    Lee Strobel

    Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chica...

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    Trinity

    Leon Uris

    “The story has a kind of relentless power, based on the real tragedy of Ireland, and Uris’s achievement is that he has neither cheapened nor trivialized that tragedy.” New York Ti...

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    Conversations with Friends

    Sally Rooney

    NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] culthit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”Entertainm...

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    Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

    Jim Cymbala

    The Times Are UrgentGod Is on the MoveNow Is the Moment to …ask God to ignite his fire in your soul! Pastor Jim Cymbala believes that Jesus wants to renew his peopleto call us back...

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    Trinity

    Tom DeLonge

    It’s 1962, in Trinity, Nevada, a small town on the edge of the desert, home to a military base serving the nuclear testing grounds. Van Lopez and his brother Andy have enough to...

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    Trinity

    Frank Close

    'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity...

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    Good Morning, Holy Spirit

    Benny Hinn

    20th anniversary of this classic with more than one million copies sold. Revised and updated with bonus study guide included. One cold winter night in Toronto, the Holy S...

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    Poetry

    Trinity

    Poetry is an acquired taste, not everyone reads poems. I personally like to express onto paper how I feel. These poems are an expression about how I have felt about love, life and ...

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    Storm Echo

    Nalini Singh

    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into the hearts of two fractured people in a world on the brink of a psychic Armageddon . . . Silence has fal...

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    Ocean Light

    Nalini Singh

    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh dives beneath the surface of her PsyChangeling world into a story of passionate devotion and selfless love... Security specialis...

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    Destined Trinity

    Christine Besze

    A Dark, MMF, Fated Mates, Paranormal Romance COMING SOON!!

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    Trinity

    Zelda Lockhart

    The HurstonWright Award Finalist makes her longawaited return with this electrifying sagaas moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Song...

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    Silver Silence

    Nalini Singh

    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary PsyChangeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal...   Control. Precision....

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    Last Guard

    Nalini Singh

    An instant New York Times bestseller!New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to a world devastated by change in her awardwinning PsyChangeling Trinity series, where ...

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    Ask Anyone

    Sherryl Woods

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns to charming Trinity Harbor with this classic story of a love that defies the oddsA merrygoround horse and an armed guard ...

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    Trinity

    Dave Bara

    SPACE BATTLES AND GRIT FROM MASTER OF STARFARING ADVENTURE AND MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION DAVE BARA, AUTHOR OF THE LIGHTSHIP CHRONICLES SERIES. REDEMPTION AT TRINITY The Rim rebellio...

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    A Girl Called Trinity

    Kate Everson

    Meet a girl whose name is a gift that connects her to the spirit world. She meets a spirit named Simon who has come to show her the real power she has. It connects her to the infin...

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    The Forgotten Trinity

    James R. White

    Discover Afresh the Living Truth of a Foundational Christian Belief The Trinity is a basic teaching of the Christian faith. It defines God's essence and describes how He relates to...

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    Murder on Trinity Place

    Victoria Thompson

    The devil's in the details when a man is found murdered near Trinity Church in the latest installment of the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series...The year of 1899 is draw...

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    About That Man

    Sherryl Woods

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns readers to the beloved Southern town of Trinity Harbor with a story of second chances and finding love in unexpected plac...

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    The Trinity Six

    Charles Cumming

    A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year The most closelyguarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed – the identity of a SIXTH member of the infamous Cambridge...

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    The Blessed Trinity

    James Socias & Dr. Scott Hahn

    The Blessed Trinity and Our Christian Vocation is about the mystery by which there is one God in three Persons. This book breaks down the mysteries of God and t...

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    Along Came Trouble

    Sherryl Woods

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns readers to the beloved Southern town of Trinity Harbor with a story of intrigue and second chances. Sheriff Tucker S...

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    The Holy Word for Morning Revival - Living in and with the Divine Trinity

    Witness Lee

    This book is intended as an aid to believers in developing a daily time of morning revival with the Lord in His word. At the same time, it provides a limited review of the Thanksgi...

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    On the Holy Trinity

    St. Augustine

    Active Table of Contents This edition of On The Holy Trinity comes complete with a TouchorClick Table of Contents, broken down by each book and chapter. Augustine of Hippo, also ...

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    Primal Mirror

    Nalini Singh

    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a family dark with shadowy secrets, as the world of the Psy teeters on the edge of a final catastrophic collapse. ...

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    The Intel Trinity

    Michael S. Malone

    Based on unprecedented access to the corporation’s archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporationthe essential company of the digital age told through t...

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    The Trinity

    R. B. Thieme, Jr.

    The Trinity is a doctrine unique to Christianity. No other faith, religion, sect, or philosophy that advocates one God also proclaims that God is ThreeinOne. This apparent paradox ...

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    Frequency

    Robert Morris

    God is speaking. Are you listening? As you open your spiritual "ears," you will learn to determine which channels God is using to broadcast his intentions. Discover how to discern ...

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    Succubus Lost

    Daniel Gage

    Excerpt:"Ah, there you are. You've been such a challenge to find, it's hard to believe we've finally caught you."The man that stood over me wasn't the same one that fired the cross...

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    Trinity Seven, Vol. 1

    Kenji Saito, Akinari Nao, Christine Dashiell & Anthony Quintessenza

    Arata Kasuga is living an ordinary life with his cousin, Hijiri, when a mysterious happening called a "Breakdown Phenomenon" makes her vanish before his very eyes. Determined to er...

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    Trinity

    CJ Bolyne

    Young and beautiful hairdresser, Payton, thought she had a normal, everyday life, no different from anyone else. When a mysterious man suddenly appears, he shatters her world by te...

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    The Holy Word for Morning Revival - The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy

    Witness Lee

    This book is intended as an aid to believers in developing a daily time of morning revival with the Lord in His word. At the same time, it provides a limited review of the Thanksgi...

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    The Last Week

    Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan

    Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and littleknown Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel ...

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    The Unholy Trinity

    Matt Walsh

    It's now or never for conservative values.This highly anticipated debut from Matt Walsh of The Blaze demands that conservative voters make a last stand and fight for the&...

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    The Holy Spirit

    Billy Graham

    Exactly who is the Holy Spirit, and what does He do? In this classic volume, Billy Graham offers a timeless, sensitive, and comprehensive portrait of this much discussed, but often...

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    The God I Never Knew

    Robert Morris

    “The God I Never Knew gives lifechanging insight into the mystery of the Holy Spirit.”Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of Life.Church and author of Dangerous Prayers&#...