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I've been researching, Blogging and Video Blogging concerning How the Trinity doctrine came into being in Christianity the last few years. So this thread will be a kind of summation and clarification of that.
1) I'm going to talk about Old Testament weirdness that would lead to "The Two Powers of Heaven" theology of 2nd Temple Judaism.
2) Mention how we tend to think in terms of "monotheism" which is different than how the Early Jews thought about things. (Monotheism is a term/concept only coined the last 5 centuries, previous generations contrasted their faith to "polytheism"/ paganism.)
3) The Influence of Philo of Alexandria on Christianity
4) The Jewish Targums, Gnostics, Arians etc. but plan to stop just before the Latin Fathers (the point of things is to show you the milestones that lead to the Church Fathers work on the Trinity).
But will do all this.... when I feel like it.
Later edit days after starting the thread
(I later decided to stop short of what I posted here not covering Philo and the Influence of Stoicism because of getting conflicting information and wanting more time to research things, so I ended things just before the time of the New Testament, and will be covering this stuff someday later in the future).
1) I'm going to talk about Old Testament weirdness that would lead to "The Two Powers of Heaven" theology of 2nd Temple Judaism.
2) Mention how we tend to think in terms of "monotheism" which is different than how the Early Jews thought about things. (Monotheism is a term/concept only coined the last 5 centuries, previous generations contrasted their faith to "polytheism"/ paganism.)
3) The Influence of Philo of Alexandria on Christianity
4) The Jewish Targums, Gnostics, Arians etc. but plan to stop just before the Latin Fathers (the point of things is to show you the milestones that lead to the Church Fathers work on the Trinity).
But will do all this.... when I feel like it.
Later edit days after starting the thread
(I later decided to stop short of what I posted here not covering Philo and the Influence of Stoicism because of getting conflicting information and wanting more time to research things, so I ended things just before the time of the New Testament, and will be covering this stuff someday later in the future).
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