Father
The Father is part of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit comes forth from the Father. Gregory and his fellow Cappadocians maintained the Nicaean doctrine of homoousia, or consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Gregory of Nazianzus defended the doctrine of the Trinity.
Relationships
- parent of
- Holy Spirit, Jesus, Christ
- co occurs with
- Sophia, Son, angels, devils, Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, Gabriel
- consort of
- Holy Spirit
- manifested by
- Horned God
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“The Holy Spirit is truly Spirit, coming forth from the Father indeed but not after the manner of the Son, for it is not by generation but by procession, since I must coin a word for the sake of clearness.”
#1405 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“With her, these combine into two supreme masculine lights, the first and the second man, the Father and the Son, the latter being also designated as the Father's ennoia. From their union proceeds the third imperishable light, the third man, Christ.”
#25297 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Any kind of water may serve as the matter of the sacrament, and the water is used to baptize the catechumen "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost".”
#44655 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free
“the Father and the Son”
#44741 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free