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In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single essence in which three distinct hypostases ("persons"): the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, exist consubstantially and co-eternally as a perichoresis. Islam considers the concept of any "plurality" within God to be a denial of monotheism.
The first defense of the doctrine of the Trinity was by Tertullian, who was born around 150–160 AD, explicitly "defined" the Trinity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and defended his theology against Praxeas, [79] although he noted that the majority of the believers in his day found issue with his doctrine.
Tawhid [a] (Arabic: تَوْحِيد , romanized: tawḥīd, lit. 'oneness [of God]') is the concept of monotheism in Islam. [2]Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests.
The Trinity doctrine is integral in inter-religious disagreements with the other two main Abrahamic religions, Judaism and Islam; the former rejects Jesus' divine mission entirely, and the latter accepts Jesus as a human prophet and the Messiah but not as the son of God, although accepting virgin birth. The rejection of the Trinity doctrine has ...
The best known in the Anglican Church is William Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, [7] whose Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and ever Blessed Trinity (London, 1690) against the Socinians, maintaining that with the exception of a mutual consciousness of each other, which no created spirits can have, the three divine persons are "three ...
The Quranic verse Al-Ma'idah 5:73 [18]: 5:73 ("Certainly they disbelieve [kafara] who say: God is the third of three"), among other verses, has been traditionally understood in Islam as rejection of the Christian Trinity doctrine, [19] but modern scholarship has suggested alternative interpretations.
The article title implies that there is some form of Trinity expressed in Islam, which is the very opposite of the actual case. Suggest renaming this article to Islamic view of the Trinity or similar.--Jeffro 77 18:03, 20 March 2009 (UTC) Done. Evercat 20:06, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Theophilus of Antioch is the earliest Church father documented to have used the word "Trinity" to refer to God.. Debate exists as to whether the earliest Church Fathers in Christian history believed in the doctrine of the Trinity – the Christian doctrine that God the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence).