Formułowanie się pojęć teologicznych dotyczących drugiej osoby Trójcy Św. w okresie przednicejskim

Abstract

In the apostolic as well as postapostolic age Christianity was forced to defend the truths of its belief from the influence of the pagan world. Besides the danger of physical extermination – death in martyrdom – it was constantly in danger of intellectual confrontation with Greek and Roman religious philosophy. It forced Christians to work out the terminology that would reflect main premises of their beliefs. First, they draw from the Scriptures of the New Testament where they could find a broad spectrum of terminology. This terminology however did not form a coherent and transparent theological system that would fully describe the Second Person of the Trinity. Therefore the task of forming the conceptual apparatus was taken up by the Church Fathers of the period of antenicene.