Gregory of Nyssa was one of the earliest theologians to attempt a systematic theology—his Catechetical Oration—and one of the first to try to make sense of why we confess one God in three persons. He argued that while Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three in the same way that Peter, Paul, and Timothy are three, we cannot say there are three Gods. “For the Persons of the Godhead are separated one from another neither in time, nor place, nor will, nor practice, nor operation, nor passivity, nor any of the like things such as are perceived with men, but only in that the Father is Father and not Son, and the Son is Son and not Father, and likewise the Holy Spirit is neither Father nor Son.”
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:21:59 +0000
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