The Trinity 101: How to Understand One God in Three Persons

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Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
Saint Louis University
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The Trinity is the foundation of Christian faith, the lifeblood of its liturgy. In this remarkable course, you will come to understand the Trinitarian theology and history as never before. Your professor is Fr. David Vincent Meconi, SJ (DPhil, the University of Oxford), an expert on early Church history and an award-winning theology professor at Saint Louis University.

The idea of one God as three persons cannot be understood through human reason alone. Indeed, the doctrine of the Trinity was not something that early Christians fully grasped. Since then, the ecumenical councils and Christianity’s great theologians have developed an understanding of this great mystery, giving us the necessary language to discuss it.

The Trinity 101 encapsulates two millennia of Trinitarian theology in 12 brilliant lectures. Thorough yet accessible, Meconi’s course covers the fascinating history of Trinitarian doctrine, from the first disciples to the pews of modern churches. Along the way, you’ll explore how the Trinity manifests itself in sacred scripture, the Mass, and catechism.

The doctrine of God’s triune existence has always been the foundation of C

The Trinity is the foundation of Christian faith, the lifeblood of its liturgy. In this remarkable course, you will come to understand the Trinitarian theology and history as never before. Your professor is Fr. David Vincent Meconi, SJ (DPhil, the University of Oxford), an expert on early Church history and an award-winning theology professor at Saint Louis University.

The idea of one God as three persons cannot be understood through human reason alone. Indeed, the doctrine of the Trinity was not something that early Christians fully grasped. Since then, the ecumenical councils and Christianity’s great theologians have developed an understanding of this great mystery, giving us the necessary language to discuss it.

The Trinity 101 encapsulates two millennia of Trinitarian theology in 12 brilliant lectures. Thorough yet accessible, Meconi’s course covers the fascinating history of Trinitarian doctrine, from the first disciples to the pews of modern churches. Along the way, you’ll explore how the Trinity manifests itself in sacred scripture, the Mass, and catechism.

The doctrine of God’s triune existence has always been the foundation of Christian belief. After rooting yourself in the scriptural origins of the Trinity, you’ll explore how the first Christians unfolded the teaching Jesus left to His disciples. Moving through the history of the Trinity, you will come to see its mystery not as an abstract doctrine, but rather as the manifestation of Christian discipleship.

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This course was previously published as The Trinity: A Theological and Spiritual History

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The recipient of multiple teaching awards, Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J., D.Phil., is an Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Saint Louis University, where he directs the new Catholic Studies Centre. Fr. Meconi holds a doctorate in ecclesiastical history from the University of Oxford and a pontifical license in patrology from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He serves as the editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review and has published numerous books and articles on the early Church, including The One Christ: St. Augustine’s Theology of Deification (Catholic University of America, 2013).Fr. Meconi is a fellow of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University, and he serves on the ecclesiastical board of Boston College.

Praise for Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J., D.Phil.

“The brilliant Augustine scholar Fr. David Meconi is well-known for his boundless energy in teaching, preaching, and writing… His personal love for the Trinity shines forth in his scholarship, and now it is available through Now You Know Media. Everyone who can’t take his courses at Saint Louis University needs this lecture series.” – Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary
“Fr. Meconi, SJ, gives witness to a rare and refreshing combination of scholarly insight and priestly compassion. An accomplished scholar and professor of theology, he reflects a life committed to the care of souls and the building of the body of Christ.” – Christopher Thompson, Ph.D., The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity
“Fr. David Meconi, S.J., is a priest with the mind of a scholar and the heart of a pastor, equally comfortable with plumbing the depths of Augustinian theology with students as he is with conveying the riches of Catholic spirituality to popular audiences.” – Carl E. Olson, best-selling author and Editor of Catholic World Report
“[Fr. Meconi’s] love of the topic gets translated into a passion to communicate the beauty of the truth of our Faith. I suspect that the listener will catch his passion for truth and grow spiritually as it instructs the interior of the soul.” – Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J.

  • The Trinity in Sacred Scripture
  • The Greek Fathers: Three Persons in One Substance
  • The Latin Fathers: The Beauty of Relationship
  • The History of the Trinitarian Creeds
  • The Filioque
  • The Doctors of the Middle Ages
  • The Mystics of the Middle Ages
  • The Trinity at the Reformation
  • The Trinity Under Attack: The Enlightenment & Early Modernism
  • The Twentieth Century
  • The Trinity and Eastern Orthodoxy
  • The Trinity in the Mass and the Catechism of the Catholic Church

1 review for The Trinity 101: How to Understand One God in Three Persons

  1. Scott B. ,CO

    2018 Spring Survey

    Spectacular overview of the understanding of the Trinity

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