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The Church of Fathers: Council of Nicaea (Cappadocian Fathers) (2)
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Paul Jang
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2009-12-12 15:01:06, hit : 11,507 |
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The Church of Fathers: Council of Nicaea (Cappadocian Fathers) (2)
장부영 2008-11-08 06:12:01, 조회 : 162
2. Thought of the Cappadocians
(1) The Cappadocians have been remembered as the defenders and opposites to Arianism and their trinitarian teaching.
(2) They had together the Nicene belief that the Father and Son are homoousios (of one substance) and the Origenist belief that Father, son and Holy Spirit are three hypostases or beings.
(3) They believed that one substance of the Godhead exists simultaneously in three different hypostases or modes of being.
(4) This means that man equals to human nature stamped with the distinctive characteristics of humanity; God the Father equal to divine nature, deity, with the distinctive characteristics of Fatherhood. Thus Father, Son and Holy Spirit are, as it were, three different ways of being God.
(5) The Cappadocians had no desire to be tritheists, nevertheless the suspicion to their doctrine on Trinity persists that their theology in fact points to tritheism. Of course, they were aware of the problem and sought to answer the charge. Offering a clear explanation of how the unity and the threeness of God to be related, but their explanation lays them open to the charge of tritheism (belirf in three gods).
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Introduction
History 