The Contribution of the Cappadocian Fathers to the Formulation of the Trinitarian Doctrine
The Contribution of the Cappadocian Fathers to the Formulation of the Trinitarian Doctrine

Summary/Abstract: The three great Church Fathers, originally from Cappadocia, who were active in the second half of the 4th century, St. Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, are three gigantic figures in the history of Christian thought. It can be said that, on the dogmatic theological level, they had a common goal, which they pursued with insistence and tenacity: that is, to bring to a definitive solution the thorny Arian question, which had caused so many problems for the Church during the entire 4th century. They were personally different from each other: Basil was predominantly a man of action; Gregory of Nazianzus, a keen theologian and a brilliant orator; Gregory of Nyssa, a profound thinker and mystic, but all three made a decisive contribution to the Trinitarian doctrine against Arianism that spread throughout the Asia Minor region to continental Europe.

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