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| The Trinity is an explaination of the [[Godhead]] accepted by most of the world's Christian denominations. The word "Trinity" was first used circa. A.D. 200 by Tertullian, a Latin theologian from Carthage who later abandoned Christianity for Montanism. Tertullian introduced the Trinity in essentially the same form in exists today: | | The Trinity is an explaination of the [[The Godhead]] accepted by most of the world's Christian denominations. The word "Trinity" was first used circa. A.D. 200 by Tertullian, a Latin theologian from Carthage who later abandoned Christianity for Montanism. Tertullian introduced the Trinity in essentially the same form in exists today: | ||
:''"Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These Three are, one essence, not one Person,"'' (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume III, Tertullian, Chapter VII, Against Praxaes) | :''"Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These Three are, one essence, not one Person,"'' (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume III, Tertullian, Chapter VII, Against Praxaes) | ||