Trinity
Athanasius
The bishop of Alexandria, exiled five times, who stood against the world for the full deity of Christ.
Basil the Great
The leader of the Cappadocian Fathers, defender of the Trinity, “theologian of the Holy Spirit,” and father of Eastern monasticism.
God
A Reformation reminder that saving faith trusts in God and His righteousness rather than human merit.
Gregory of Nazianzus
The Cappadocian “theologian” who defended the Trinity and taught that what Christ did not assume he did not heal.
Gregory of Nyssa
The philosophical Cappadocian, brother of Basil, who made Scripture the umpire against the Arians and helped shape the ransom theory of the atonement.
Maximus the Confessor
The monk who suffered mutilation and exile for confessing that Christ has a true human will as well as a divine one.
Tertullian
The North African apologist who first used the word “Trinity” and gave the doctrine its Latin vocabulary.
