Scripture testifies from beginning to end that God is one, but it also presents three persons who are God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. . . . This fact is difficult to understand, but it is quite unavoidable in Scripture and central to the gospel. The doctrine of the Trinity attempts to account for this fact and to exclude heresies that have arisen on the subject. Its basic assertions are these: (1) God is one. (2) God is three. (3) The three persons are each fully God. (4) Each person of the persons is distinct from the others. (5) The three persons are related to one another eternally as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
John Frame from The Doctrine of God (pg. 621-22)
The Father...the Son...and the Holy Spirit glorify each other. . . . At the center of the universe, self-giving love is the dynamic currency of the Trinitarian life of God. The persons within God exalt, commune with, and defer to one another. . . . When early Greek Christians spoke of perichoresis in God they meant that each divine person harbors the other at the center of his being. In constant movement of overture and acceptance each person envelops and encircles the others.
Cornelius Plantinga
Ultimate reality is a community of persons who know and love one another. That is what the universe, God, history, and life is all about. . . . We believe the world was made by a God who is a community of persons who have loved each other for all eternity. You were made for mutually self-giving, other directed love. Self-centeredness destroys the fabric of what God has made.
Timothy J. Keller from The Reason for God (pg. 216-15)
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Notes |
The Splendor of the Three-in-One God: The Necessity and Mystery of the Trinity  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Biblical Basis for the Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Robert M. Bowman, Jr. |
The Trinity  |
Sam Storms |
What is the Doctrine of the Trinity?  |
Desiring God Staff |
Trinitarian Analogies  |
John M. Frame |
God in Three Persons: The Trinity  |
Wayne Grudem |
The Doctrine of the Trinity and the Deity of Christ  |
Walter Martin |
Tampering With the Trinity: Does the Son Submit to His Father?  |
Bruce A. Ware (pdf) |
A Brief Definition of the Trinity  |
James White |
The Trinity  |
Glenn Miller |
The Being of God, the Character of God and the Trinity  |
Paul D. Adams |
The Trinity: Questions and Answers  |
Karol Joseph - www.JewsforJesus.org |
Jewishness and the Trinity  |
Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum - www.JewsforJesus.org |
A Look at the Trinity From a Messianic Jewish Perspective  |
Richard Harvey - www.JewsforJesus.org |
A Brief Explanation of the Trinity  |
James M. Arlandson (pdf) |
The Trinity  |
Francis J. Beckwith |
The Pre-existence of Christ in Scripture, Patristics and Creed  |
James White |
In The Name Of The Father, Son And Holy Spirit: Constructing A Trinitarian Worldview  |
J. Scott Horrell |
Reflections on the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity - Part 1  |
Paul L. Owen |
Reflections on the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity - Part 2  |
Paul L. Owen |
Let Us Make Man: A Trinitarian Interpretation  |
Anthony Rogers |
The “Heavenly” and “Earthly” Yahweh: A Trinitarian Interpretation of Genesis 19:24  |
Anthony Rogers |
A Critical Examination and Exegesis of 1 John 5:7: Which Variant Reading is the Original and Why?  |
Mike Sarkissian, Th. M. |
Head Coverings, Prophecies and the Trinity  |
Thomas R. Schreiner |
I Love the Trinity  |
John Samson |
The Work of the Trinity in the Salvation of Sinners  |
Michael Gowens |
The Bible's Teaching About The Trinity  |
James Montgomery Boice |
Knowing and Adoring the Triune God  |
Michael Haykin |
If the Son is the Trinity why does he not know when the Lord will come?  |
Ra McLaughlin - Third Millennium Ministries |
The Trinity  |
Bob Burridge |
Trinity and Covenant  |
Rev. Ralph Allan Smith (1997) |
The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Gary Crampton (pdf) |
The Intellectual Triunity of God  |
Joel Parkinson |
Trinity and Covenant  |
Ralph Allan Smith |
The Trinity and Contextualization  |
Ralph Allan Smith |
Paradox and Truth  |
Ralph Allan Smith - Rethinking Van Til on the Trinity by Comparing Van Til, Plantinga, and Kuyper |
Were Early Christians Trinitarians?  |
Robert Hommel |
The Three Divine Persons  |
G.D. Watson |
Equality in the Godhead  |
Ra McLaughlin - Third Millennium Ministries |
One God in Three Persons  |
Bill Weinrich |
Biblical Monotheism Examined: Trinitarian or Henotheistic in Nature  |
Sam Shamoun |
Trinitarianism  |
Stanley L. Derickson |
The Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Dr. Van Lees |
The Trinity (Triunity) of God  |
J. Hampton Keathley III |
Trinitarianism or Theology Proper  |
Greg Herrick |
The One and Triune God and the Life of His People  |
Rowland Ward |
The Theology of the Ancient Creeds: The Procession of the Spirit  |
Greg Uttinger |
Was Jesus Worshipped  |
Gregory Koukl |
What is the Significance of the Doctrine of the Trinity for Living the Christian Life?  |
Vincent McCann |
The Trinity, the Definition of Chalcedon, and Oneness Theology  |
James White |
Does the Submission of Jesus to the Father Contradict the Trinity?  |
Glenn Miller |
Does the Submission of Jesus to the Father Contradict the Trinity?  |
Glenn Miller |
Calvin's Doctrine Of The Trinity: A Summary And Evaluation (.pdf)  |
C.B. Holdsworth, Reformation & Revival 7.2 (Spring 1998): 119-128. |
The Trinity - Austrialian Presbyterian  |
Online Magazine (pdf) - Gerald Bray, Andrew Moody and Peter Barnes |
Loving the Trinity  |
James R. White |
Our Triune God  |
Peter Toon |
The Trinity: A Case Study in Implicit Truth  |
Ron Rhodes |
The Doctrine of the Trinity Defended  |
Spotlight Ministries |
Emblems of the Trinity  |
G.D. Watson |
The Trinity Solves Problems  |
Gregory Koukl |
The Trinity  |
Charles T. Buntin |
Three in One  |
Richard L. Strauss |
Equality in the Godhead  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Matthew 28:19 and the Trinity  |
Robert Bowman |
The State of the Doctrine of the Trinity in Evangelical Theology (.pdf)  |
Fred Sanders |
The Most Important Doctrine Many Never Think About  |
Kevin DeYoung |
Trinity and Salvation  |
Rick Phillips |
Election and Trinity (.pdf)  |
JAMES J. CASSIDY |
Christocentrism: An Asymmetrical Trinitarianism?  |
Dane C. Ortlund |