Trinitarian Theology In Early Christian Anaphoras

Author(s):  
Claude Panaccio

Early Christian theologians such as Justin Martyr and Theophilus of Antioch borrowed the philosophical idea of internal discourse as a useful wordly comparison for understanding the engendering of the Son by the Father in the divine Trinity. Occurring first in apologetic and polemical writings, this recourse to philosophy became controversial among theologians themselves. Augustine, however, systematically developed the concept of ‘mental word’ in the context of Trinitarian theology and promoted the notion that human thought is a kind of internal speech underlying natural languages and prior to them.


2007 ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Yuliya Kostantynivna Nedzelska

The concept of "personality" is multifaceted and multifaceted in its basis, and therefore, in science has always been a great difficulty in determining its essence and content. For example, in Antiquity, "personality" as such, dissolves in the concept of "society". There is no "human" yet, but there is a genus, a community, a people that are only quantitatively formed from the mass of different individuals, governed and subordinated to any one idea (custom, tribal or ethno-religious) espoused by this society. In other words, in such societies, the individual was not unique and unique; his personality (we understand - personality) was limited to the general, the collective. This is confirmed by the Jewish and early Christian texts.


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