God The Son - Use of The Term

Use of The Term

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The term is used in Athanasian Creed and formulas such as: "God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit : And not three gods, but God is one" - Deus Pater, Deus Filius, Deus Spiritus Sanctus : Et non tres Dii, sed unus est Deus.

The term is used by Saint Augustine in his On the Trinity, for example in discussion of God the Son's obedience to God the Father: deo patri deus filius obediens.

Jacques Forget (1910) in the Catholic Encyclopedia article "Holy Ghost" notes that "Among the apologists, Athenagoras mentions the Holy Ghost along with, and on the same plane as, the Father and the Son. "Who would not be astonished", says he (A Plea for the Christians 10), "to hear us called atheists, us who confess God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Ghost, and hold them one in power and distinct in order. Saint Augustine in Sermon 90 on the New Testament says "2. For hold this fast as a firm and settled truth, if you would continue Catholics, that God the Father begot God the Son without time, and made Him of a Virgin in time."

The Augsburg Confession (1530) adopted the phrase as Gott der Sohn.

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