Dogmatic Theology, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

It belongs to the first treatise of Dogmatic Theology (D e Deo Uno) to show that God is one and personal. The pantheistic fiction of an impersonal God is sufficiently exploded by the Almighty sown solemn declaration (G en. I ll, 14): I am Who am71 Whether the infinite personality of God must be conceived as simple or multiplex, is a matter which human reason cannot determine unaided. On the strength of the inductive axiom, Quot sunt naturae, tot sunt personae we should rather be tempted to attribute but one personality to the one Divine Nature. Positive Revelation tells us, however, that there are in God three really distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This fundamental dogma, which essentially differentiates the Christian from the Pagan, from the Jewish, and from the Mohammedan conceptions of God, is designated in the technical Latin of the Church as Trinitas a term first used, so far as we know, by Theophilus of Antioch 2and Tertullian,3 and which later became cur1 Cfr. Pohle-P reuss: God: His A utolycum, see Bardenhewer-S hahan, Knovuability, Essence, and A ttri Patrology, pp. 66 sq., Freiburg and butes, St. Louis 1911. St. Louis 1908. On the word rpidst 2A d Autolyc., II, 15: Tpiados cfr. Newman, A thanasius, II, 473 TOV Ofov Kdl 6yov Kdl TTJS ffo jlas sq., Qth ed., London 1903.) (O nthe three books Ad 3D e Pudicitia, c.
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