The Trinity Actually Makes Sense - Here’s How
What the Early Church Actually Taught About Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and Why Most of Us Were Never Told
Attribution
Preamble, this article owes most of it’s content to Dr. Nathan Jacobs and his podcast episode on this same topic. Before listening to his lectures I didn’t fully understand the Trinity in detail. I had some understanding but it was still clouded by western confusion. Hopefully, I’ve boiled this down into something understandable and digestible. If you are interested in this stuff I highly suggest that you listen to his most excellent podcast (which can be found HERE) and this episode specifically, which can be found at the link provided at the end of this article.
Dr. Jacobs is a scholar of philosophy and religion, the host of The Nathan Jacobs Podcast, and writer/co-Executive Producer of the Amazon Original series House of David. His academic work on the Trinity, particularly his 2008 paper “On ‘Not Three Gods’ — Again” in Modern Theology, is essential reading for anyone who wants to go deeper. You can find his SubStack at Theological Letters.
Personally I find that Dr. Jacobs is the Orthodox Christian version of Dr. Jordan Peterson.
In this article we are going to examine the fundamental concepts of the Trinity and how they should be understood in the context of the Begetting of the Son, the procession of the Spirit, how the doctrine is monotheistic and how the Latin understanding of Augustine created a whole lot of confusion that led to todays present situation of misunderstanding.
