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It would seem clear that we must recognize in the Old Testament doctrine of the relation of God to His revelation by the creative Word and the Spirit, at least the germ of the distinctions in the Godhead afterward fully made known in the Christian revelation. And we can scarcely stop there. After all is said, in the light of the later revelation, the Trinitarian interpretation remains the most natural one of the phenomena which the older writers frankly interpreted as intimations of the Trinity; especially of those connected with the descriptions of the Angel of Jehovah no doubt, but also even of such a form of expression as meets us in the "Let us make man in our image" of Gen. 1:26, for surely verse 27: "And God created man in his own image," does not encourage us to take the preceding verse as announcing that man was to be created in the image of the angels. This is not an illegitimate reading of New Testament ideas back into the text of the Old Testament; it is only reading the text of the Old Testament under the illumination of the New Testament revelation. The Old Testament may be likened to a chamber richly furnished but dimly lighted; the introduction of light brings into it nothing which was not in it before; but it brings out into clearer view much of what is in it but was only dimly or even not at all perceived before. The mystery of the Trinity is not revealed in the Old Testament; but the mystery of the Trinity underlies the Old Testament revelation, and here and there almost comes into view. Thus the Old Testament revelation of God is not corrected by the fuller revelation which follows it, but only perfected, extended and enlarged.
B.B. Warfield from The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity

In Christianity God is not an impersonal thing or a static thing – not even just one person – but a dynamic pulsating activity, a life, a kind of drama, almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. . . . [The] pattern of this three-personal life is…the great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality.
C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity

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Title Notes
Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity John Owen (pdf)icon
On the Trinity Augustineicon
Three Persons, But One God Thomas Watson - God is but one, yet are there three distinct persons subsisting in one Godhead. This is a sacred mystery, which the light within man could never have discovered.icon
The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons John Calvinicon
On the Incarnation Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 293-373) - Introduction by C.S. Lewisicon
Of Communion with God John Owenicon
Doctrine of The Trinity John Owenicon
The Trinity Thomas Watsonicon
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” Matthew Henry - A Scripture Catechism in the Method of the Assembly's (Q6)icon
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” John Whitecross - The Shorter Catechism Illustrated (Q6)icon
Of the Unity of God Thomas Bostonicon
“Are there more God’s than one?” James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q5)icon
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” Thomas Vincent - The Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Assembly Explained and Proved from Scripture (Q6)icon
Of Three Person in the Godhead - “How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” John Flavel - An Exposition of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism (Q6)icon
Of the Holy Trinity Thomas Bostonicon
The Being, Attributes and Persons of the Godhead Francis R. Beattie - Commentary on the Westminster Standardsicon
The Subsistence of God William Amesicon
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” Alexander Whyte - A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism (Q6)icon
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?” James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q6)icon
Work of the Holy Spirit Abraham Kuypericon
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Each Part in Saving Sinners James Buchananicon
The Divine Trinity Herman Bavinckicon
On the Trinity Hilary of Poitiers (ca. 300 – 368)icon
Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 293-373)icon
The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 329-389)icon
The Third Theological Oration: On the Son Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394)icon
On Not Three Gods: To Ablabius Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394)icon
The Sprinkling of Blood, and the Trinity Andrew Murrayicon
The Trinity R.L. Dabneyicon
The Divinity of Christ R.L. Dabneyicon
The Divinity of the Holy Spirit and of the Son R.L. Dabneyicon
Personal Distinctions in the Trinity R.L. Dabneyicon
Of God and the Holy Trinity A.A. Hodgeicon
How many persons are there in the Godhead? The Westminster Shorter Catechism Explainedicon
De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition Athanasiusicon
Against the Arians (Contra Arianos) Athanasiusicon
Of God and of the Holy Trinity Robert Shawicon
Of A Plurality In The Godhead; Or, A Trinity Of Persons In The Unity Of The Divine Essence John Gillicon
The Trinity James P. Boyceicon
The Triune God by J. Gresham Machenicon
The Divine Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Francis Cheynellicon
The Virgin Birth of Christ J Gresham Machenicon
Of the Trinity and a Christian, and Of the Law and a Christian John Bunyanicon
The Trinity Dr. Louis Berkhoficon
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