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Encyclopedia > Cappadocian Fathers

The Cappadocian Fathers are the 4th century church fathers Basil the Great, Gregory Nazianzen, and Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa, who made major contributions to the definition of the Trinity finalized at the First Council of Constantinople in 381 and the Nicene Creed.




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Cappadocian Fathers (341 words)
Two brothers and a close friend, these three theologians became defenders of Nicene orthodoxy and carried forward the work of Origen, Tertullian, and Athanasius in formulating the doctrine of the Trinity.
The Cappadocian fathers contributed to the emergence of a doctrine of the Trinity that stood between the extremes of Arianism and monarchianism.
While Athanasius had emphasized the single substance of the Godhead through the concept homoousios, the Cappadocians accented the idea of hypostasis or "person," which made it possible to speak in a balanced way of the Trinity as a Godhead of one substance and three persons.
Church Fathers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (371 words)
The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history.
Famous Apostolic Fathers are St. Clement of Rome, the author of the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas.
The Desert Fathers were early monastics living in the Egyptian desert; although they did not write as much, their influence was also great.
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