ABSTRACT
Religious thinking in civilized human societies has always entailed a situation in which incompatible views may conflict and blend; any one religious belief conflicts with others, but different views also mutually influence others. The Christian faith in God has two distinctive features as compared to other faiths in God: first, that we know who God is through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and, second, that Jesus Christ is the incarnation of God. In the context of religious history, the Christian Trinitarian faith has always met with severe controversies. The Trinitarian teaching of the Christian faith formed an exposition of the confession of the God of Christ, set forth by the confessing congregation at a time when it had not yet attained a powerful presence in the cultural and political social life of the time.
