SOURCE: Torrance, Thomas F. “The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity according to St Athanasius,” In Trinitarian Perspectives: Toward Doctrinal Agreement, pp. 7–20. Edinburgh: T & T Clark Ltd, 1994.

In the following essay, originally published in 1989, Torrance examines Athanasius's Christological approach to the Trinity.

‘There is one eternal Godhead in Trinity, and there is one Glory of the Holy Trinity … If theological truth is now perfect in Trinity, this is the true and only divine worship, and this is its beauty and truth, it must have been always so.’¹

‘There is one Form of Godhead, which is also in the Word; and one God the Father, existing in himself as he transcends all things, and manifest in the Son as he pervades all things, and in the Spirit as in him he acts in all things through the Word. Thus we confess God to be One through the Trinity, and claim...