It would seem clear that we must recognize in the Old Testament doctrine of the relation of God to His revelation by the creative Word and the Spirit, at least the germ of the distinctions in the Godhead afterward fully made known in the Christian revelation. And we can scarcely stop there. After all is said, in the light of the later revelation, the Trinitarian interpretation remains the most natural one of the phenomena which the older writers frankly interpreted as intimations of the Trinity; especially of those connected with the descriptions of the Angel of Jehovah no doubt, but also even of such a form of expression as meets us in the "Let us make man in our image" of Gen. 1:26, for surely verse 27: "And God created man in his own image," does not encourage us to take the preceding verse as announcing that man was to be created in the image of the angels. This is not an illegitimate reading of New Testament ideas back into the text of the Old Testament; it is only reading the text of the Old Testament under the illumination of the New Testament revelation. The Old Testament may be likened to a chamber richly furnished but dimly lighted; the introduction of light brings into it nothing which was not in it before; but it brings out into clearer view much of what is in it but was only dimly or even not at all perceived before. The mystery of the Trinity is not revealed in the Old Testament; but the mystery of the Trinity underlies the Old Testament revelation, and here and there almost comes into view. Thus the Old Testament revelation of God is not corrected by the fuller revelation which follows it, but only perfected, extended and enlarged.
B.B. Warfield from The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity
| Title |
Notes |
Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity  |
John Owen (pdf) |
On the Trinity  |
Augustine |
Systematic Theology (.pdf)  |
Charles Hodge |
Of Communion with God (.pdf)  |
John Owen |
The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons  |
John Calvin |
The Trinity  |
Loraine Boettner |
The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity  |
Benjamin B. Warfield |
Doctrine of The Trinity  |
John Owen |
The Trinity  |
Thomas Watson |
Of the Unity of God  |
Thomas Boston |
The Being, Attributes and Persons of the Godhead  |
Francis R. Beattie - Commentary on the Westminster Standards |
“Are there more God’s than one?”  |
James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q5) |
Of the Holy Trinity  |
Thomas Boston |
Of Three Person in the Godhead - “How many Persons are there in the Godhead?”  |
John Flavel - An Exposition of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism (Q6) |
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?”  |
Matthew Henry - A Scripture Catechism in the Method of the Assembly's (Q6) |
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?”  |
Thomas Vincent - The Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Assembly Explained and Proved from Scripture (Q6) |
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?”  |
John Whitecross - The Shorter Catechism Illustrated (Q6) |
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?”  |
Alexander Whyte - A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism (Q6) |
“How many Persons are there in the Godhead?”  |
James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q6) |
The Triune God  |
J. Gresham Machen |
On the Incarnation  |
Athanasius (with introduction by C.S. Lewis) Athanasius stood contra mundum ("against the world") in defense of the biblical doctrine of Christ. He opposed Arius when it seemed all the world would follow Arius's heresy. |
Work of the Holy Spirit (.pdf)  |
Abraham Kuyper |
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Each Part in Saving Sinners  |
James Buchanan |
The Divinity of the Holy Spirit and of the Son  |
R.L Dabney |
The Divine Trinity  |
Herman Bavinck |
On the Trinity  |
Hilary of Poitiers (ca. 300 – 368) |
Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius  |
Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 293-373) |
The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia  |
Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 329-389) |
The Third Theological Oration: On the Son  |
Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394) |
On Not Three Gods: To Ablabius  |
Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-394) |
The Trinity  |
R.L. Dabney |
The Divinity of Christ  |
R.L. Dabney |
Personal Distinctions in the Trinity  |
R.L. Dabney |
How many persons are there in the Godhead?  |
The Westminster Shorter Catechism Explained |
De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition  |
Athanasius |
Against the Arians (Contra Arianos)  |
Athanasius |
Of God and of the Holy Trinity  |
Robert Shaw |
Of A Plurality In The Godhead; Or, A Trinity Of Persons In The Unity Of The Divine Essence  |
John Gill |
The Trinity  |
James P. Boyce |
The Divine Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit  |
Francis Cheynell |
Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity  |
B.B. Warfield |
Melanchthon and Patristic Thought: The Doctrines of Christ and Grace, the Trinity, and the Creation  |
E. P. Meijering |
Select treatises in controversy with the Arians, Pt. 1  |
Athanasius |
Select treatises in controversy with the Arians, Pt. 2  |
Athanasius |
Fellowship with the Trinity (.pdf)  |
Erroll Hulse |
OF THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD AND THE TRINITY OF PERSONS  |
Hugh Binning |
The Divine Trinunity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (.pdf)  |
Francis Cheynell |