A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
Novatian of Rome
Chapter 7
About this work
A Latin exposition of the rule of faith treating God the Father, Christ’s divinity and humanity, and the Holy Spirit while arguing against several rival theological positions.
- Author
- Novatian of Rome
- Traditional attribution
- Tertullian or Cyprian (in earlier transmission)
- Date
- c. AD 240–250
- Origin
- Rome
- Genre
- Theological Treatise
Chapter VII. Argument.—Moreover, that When God is Called a Spirit, Brightness, and Light, God is Not Sufficiently Expressed by Those Appellations.
But when the Lord says that God