Spencer Heath Archive

Item 930

Typed quotation about the Anglican dogma of the Trinity from an article by the Rev. Robert Flint, D.D., L.L.D., University of Edinburgh, Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Volume XXIII, page 240. The terms mass, motion and duration are inserted in parentheses by Heath.

Spring 1943?

Original is in item 924.

TRINITY

Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Article “Theism” Volume XXIII, page 240, by Rev. Robert Flint, D.D., L.L.D., University of Edinburgh.

“It (the dogma) is a doctrine, not as to the manifestations and revelations of Godhead, but as to their ground and exploration, the constitution of Godhead, a doctrine as to a trinity of essence … not as a ‘sterile, monotonous simplicity,’ but as a unity rich in distinctions and perfections .. a diversity of properties, a variety of offices, a multiplicity of opera­tions, yet sameness of nature …  One substance in three persons, of which the first (mass) eternally generates the second (motion), and the third (duration) eternally proceeds from the first and second.” ⁹³⁰