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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The Splendor of the Three-in-One God: The Necessity and Mystery of the Trinity  |
R. Scott Clark |
God in Three Persons: The Trinity  |
Wayne Grudem |
The Biblical Basis for the Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Robert M. Bowman, Jr. |
The Trinity  |
Sam Storms |
Trinitarian Analogies  |
John M. Frame |
What is the Doctrine of the Trinity?  |
Desiring God Staff |
A Brief Definition of the Trinity  |
James White |
A Brief Explanation of the Trinity  |
James M. Arlandson (pdf) |
A Look at the Trinity From a Messianic Jewish Perspective  |
Richard Harvey - www.JewsforJesus.org |
Jewishness and the Trinity  |
Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum - www.JewsforJesus.org |
Tampering With the Trinity: Does the Son Submit to His Father?  |
Bruce A. Ware (pdf) |
The Being of God, the Character of God and the Trinity  |
Paul D. Adams |
The Doctrine of the Trinity and the Deity of Christ  |
Walter Martin |
The Pre-existence of Christ in Scripture, Patristics and Creed  |
James White |
The Trinity  |
Glenn Miller |
The Trinity  |
Francis J. Beckwith |
The Trinity: Questions and Answers  |
Karol Joseph - www.JewsforJesus.org |
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 |
A Critical Examination and Exegesis of 1 John 5:7: Which Variant Reading is the Original and Why?  |
Mike Sarkissian, Th. M. |
Biblical Monotheism Examined: Trinitarian or Henotheistic in Nature  |
Sam Shamoun |
Calvin's Doctrine Of The Trinity: A Summary And Evaluation (.pdf)  |
C.B. Holdsworth, Reformation & Revival 7.2 (Spring 1998): 119-128. |
Christocentrism: An Asymmetrical Trinitarianism?  |
Dane C. Ortlund |
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 |
Election and Trinity (.pdf)  |
JAMES J. CASSIDY |
Emblems of the Trinity  |
G.D. Watson |
Equality in the Godhead  |
Ra McLaughlin - Third Millennium Ministries |
Equality in the Godhead  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Head Coverings, Prophecies and the Trinity  |
Thomas R. Schreiner |
I Love the Trinity  |
John Samson |
If the Son is the Trinity why does he not know when the Lord will come?  |
Ra McLaughlin - Third Millennium Ministries |
Knowing and Adoring the Triune God  |
Michael Haykin |
Let Us Make Man: A Trinitarian Interpretation  |
Anthony Rogers |
Loving the Trinity  |
James R. White |
Matthew 28:19 and the Trinity  |
Robert Bowman |
One God in Three Persons  |
Bill Weinrich |
Our Triune God  |
Peter Toon |
Paradox and Truth  |
Ralph Allan Smith - Rethinking Van Til on the Trinity by Comparing Van Til, Plantinga, and Kuyper |
The Bible's Teaching About The Trinity  |
James Montgomery Boice |
The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Gary Crampton (pdf) |
The Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Dr. Van Lees |
The Doctrine of the Trinity Defended  |
Spotlight Ministries |
The Intellectual Triunity of God  |
Joel Parkinson |
The Most Important Doctrine Many Never Think About  |
Kevin DeYoung |
The One and Triune God and the Life of His People  |
Rowland Ward |
The State of the Doctrine of the Trinity in Evangelical Theology (.pdf)  |
Fred Sanders |
The Theology of the Ancient Creeds: The Procession of the Spirit  |
Greg Uttinger |
The Three Divine Persons  |
G.D. Watson |
The Trinity  |
Bob Burridge |
The Trinity  |
Charles T. Buntin |
The Trinity (Triunity) of God  |
J. Hampton Keathley III |
The Trinity - Austrialian Presbyterian  |
Online Magazine (pdf) - Gerald Bray, Andrew Moody and Peter Barnes |
The Trinity and Contextualization  |
Ralph Allan Smith |
The Trinity Solves Problems  |
Gregory Koukl |
The Trinity, the Definition of Chalcedon, and Oneness Theology  |
James White |
The Trinity: A Case Study in Implicit Truth  |
Ron Rhodes |
The Work of the Trinity in the Salvation of Sinners  |
Michael Gowens |
The “Heavenly” and “Earthly” Yahweh: A Trinitarian Interpretation of Genesis 19:24  |
Anthony Rogers |
Three in One  |
Richard L. Strauss |
Trinitarianism  |
Stanley L. Derickson |
Trinitarianism or Theology Proper  |
Greg Herrick |
Trinity and Covenant  |
Rev. Ralph Allan Smith (1997) |
Trinity and Covenant  |
Ralph Allan Smith |
Trinity and Salvation  |
Rick Phillips |
Was Jesus Worshipped  |
Gregory Koukl |
Were Early Christians Trinitarians?  |
Robert Hommel |
What is the Significance of the Doctrine of the Trinity for Living the Christian Life?  |
Vincent McCann |