One or Three?

Karl-Heinz Ohlig

ISBN 10: 3631503377 / ISBN 13: 9783631503379

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jan 2003, 2003

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The study shall demonstrate that the dogma of the Trinity is a product of historical developments. Jesus believed in Jahwe and called him Father. This monotheism was a central subject of the earliest Christian preachings. The contact between the Christianity and the hellenistic thinking and philosophy led to the trinitarian concepts in the second century: the activities of God were interpreted «ad extra», to the outside (the creation «in the beginning» and the guidance over the history of Israel and of the church) as ontological hypostasis in the concept of the «Word» and the «Holy Ghost». In the third century they lost their temporal character and became eternal «qualities» of God himself. Since the fifth century the western Latin theology produced the doctrine of the three persons in God.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 142 pp. Deutsch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631503379

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: One or Three?
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jan 2003
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 3631503377
• ISBN-13: 9783631503379
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 210B x 148 H x 9 T Millimeter Breite: 210 mm, Höhe: 148 mm, Tiefe: 9 mm
• Gewicht: 194 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The study shall demonstrate that the dogma of the Trinity is a product of historical developments. Jesus believed in Jahwe and called him Father. This monotheism was a central subject of the earliest Christian preachings. The contact between the Christianity and the hellenistic thinking and philosophy led to the trinitarian concepts in the second century: the activities of God were interpreted «ad extra», to the outside (the creation «in the beginning» and the guidance over the history of Israel and of the church) as ontological hypostasis in the concept of the «Word» and the «Holy Ghost». In the third century they lost their temporal character and became eternal «qualities» of God himself. Since the fifth century the western Latin theology produced the doctrine of the three persons in God.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Author: Karl-Heinz Ohlig, born in 1938, is professor of religious studies and history of Christianity at the university of Saarbrücken. His publications are about the papel primacy, the Christology, the trinity, the Islam and the History of religions.