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Do not fill this in! ====Christianity==== [[File:Švenčiausioji Trejybė.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|''Holy Trinity'' (1756–1758) by [[Szymon Czechowicz]], showing [[God the Father]], [[God the Son]], and the [[Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]], all of whom are revered in Christianity as a single deity]] {{Main|God in Christianity|Trinity|God the Father|God the Son|Jesus in Christianity|Holy Spirit in Christianity|Names of God in Christianity|Christian theology}} Christianity is a monotheistic religion in which most mainstream congregations and denominations accept the concept of the Holy [[Trinity]].<ref name="Emery"/>{{rp|233–234}} Modern orthodox Christians believe that the Trinity is composed of three equal, [[Consubstantiality|cosubstantial]] persons: [[God the Father]], [[God the Son]], and the [[Holy Spirit]].<ref name="Emery"/>{{rp|233–234}} The first person to describe the persons of the Trinity as ''homooúsios'' (ὁμοούσιος; "of the same substance") was the [[Church Fathers|Church Father]] Origen.<ref name="La Due">{{cite book|last=La Due|first=William J.|date=2003|title=Trinity Guide to the Trinity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WvgLlSKW7oC&q=Origen+Trinity&pg=PA37|location=Harrisburg, PA|publisher=Trinity Press International|isbn=978-1-56338-395-3|page=38|access-date=16 October 2020|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831002219/https://books.google.com/books?id=0WvgLlSKW7oC&q=Origen+Trinity&pg=PA37|url-status=live}}</ref> Although most early Christian theologians (including [[Origen]]) were [[Subordinationism|Subordinationists]],<ref name="Badcock">{{citation|last=Badcock|first=Gary D.|date=1997|title=Light of Truth and Fire of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnDyjaXPwooC&q=Origen+Subordinationist&pg=PA43|location=Grand Rapids, MI|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-8028-4288-6|page=43|access-date=16 October 2020|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831002231/https://books.google.com/books?id=qnDyjaXPwooC&q=Origen+Subordinationist&pg=PA43|url-status=live}}</ref> who believed that the Father was superior to the Son and the Son superior to the Holy Spirit,<ref name="La Due"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Olson|first=Roger E.|date=1999|title=The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zexBAwAAQBAJ&q=Origen+Father+of+Theology&pg=PA100|location=Downers Grove, IL|publisher=InterVarsity Press|isbn=978-0-8308-1505-0|page=25|access-date=16 October 2020|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831002228/https://books.google.com/books?id=zexBAwAAQBAJ&q=Origen+Father+of+Theology&pg=PA100|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Greggs|first=Tom|date=2009|title=Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation: Restoring Particularity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etQjYHmwiv4C&q=Origen+preexistence+of+souls&pg=PA55|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-956048-6|page=161|access-date=16 October 2020|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831002207/https://books.google.com/books?id=etQjYHmwiv4C&q=Origen+preexistence+of+souls&pg=PA55|url-status=live}}</ref> this belief was condemned as heretical by the [[First Council of Nicaea]] in the fourth century, which declared that all three persons of the Trinity are equal.<ref name="Badcock"/> Christians regard the universe as an element in God's actualization<ref name="Emery"/>{{rp|273}} and the Holy Spirit is seen as the divine essence that is "the unity and relation of the [[God the Father|Father]] and the Son".<ref name="Emery"/>{{rp|273}} According to George Hunsinger, the doctrine of the Trinity justifies worship in a Church, wherein Jesus Christ is deemed to be a full deity with the [[Christian cross]] as his icon.<ref name="Emery"/>{{rp|296}} The theological examination of Jesus Christ, of divine grace in incarnation, his non-transferability and completeness has been a historic topic. For example, the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451 CE declared that in "one person Jesus Christ, fullness of deity and fullness of humanity are united, the union of the natures being such that they can neither be divided nor confused".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Larsen|first1=Timothy|last2=Treier|first2=Daniel J.|title=The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology|date=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-82750-8|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=vlmXBe0RPxYC|page=51}}|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> Jesus Christ, according to the [[New Testament]], is the self-disclosure of the one, true God, both in his teaching and in his person; Christ, in Christian faith, is considered the incarnation of God.<ref name="Owen"/>{{rp|4, 29}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Aslanoff|first1=Catherine|title=The Incarnate God: The Feasts and the life of Jesus Christ|date=1995|publisher=St. Vladimir's Seminary Press|location=Crestwood, NY|isbn=978-0-88141-130-0|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=QpVNuPwnIIcC}}|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Inbody|first1=Tyron|title=The Faith of the Christian Church: An Introduction to Theology|date=2005|publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing|location=Grand Rapids, MI|isbn=978-0-8028-4151-3|pages=205–232|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=cHvF2SiBn-kC}}|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page