Early Church · 416

On the Trinity

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

Augustine's fifteen-book investigation of the Trinity is the most sustained philosophical and theological engagement with that doctrine in the Western Christian tradition. Beginning from Scripture's testimony to the equality of Father, Son, and Spirit, he moves inward to seek a created image of the Trinity in the human mind's own faculties of memory, understanding, and will. Written over nearly two decades at Hippo from roughly 399 to 416, it shaped every subsequent Western account of Trinitarian theology, from Anselm through the medieval schoolmen to the Reformers.

15 hrs total · 15 chapters