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18 Quoted by Paul in the sermon put on his lips by the author of the Acts of the Apostles 17:28. The quotation probably came from Epimanides.
19. I Corinthians 15:4.
20. Romans 6:4; Galatians 5:16-25; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:15.
21. Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 3:1, 13; 9:3; I Corinthians 1:13.
22. Romans r:12-18.
23. Philippians 2:6-11.
24. John 1:3.
25. I John 1:1.
26. Acts of the Apostles 2:2.
27. Ibid, 2:9, 10.
28. Joel 3:1-5.
29. Acts of the Apostles 2:22-36.
30. Ibid 7:48.
31. Quoted in A.D. Nock, Conversion, The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (Oxford, 1933) P.207.
32. AdBaptizandos, Homily 13:14 quoted in Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Faith and Belief (Princeton, 1979), P-259- 33. Account given by Irenaeus Heresies I.1.1. Most of the writings of the early 'heretics' were destroyed and survive only in the polemic of their orthodox opponents.
34. Hippolytus, Heresies, 7.21.4.
35. Irenaeus Heresies 1.5.3.
36. Hippolytus Heresies 8.15.1-2.
37. Luke 6:43.
38. Irenaeus, Heresies 1.27.2.
39. Tertullian, Against Marcion, 1.6.1.
40. Origen, Against Celsus, 1.9.
41. Exhortation to the Greeks 59.2.
42. Ibid, 10.106.4.
43. The Teacher 2.3.381.
44. Exhortation to the Greeks 1.8.4.
45. Heresies 5.16.2.
46. Enneads 5.6.
47. Ibid. 5.3.11.
48. Ibid. 7.3.2.
49. Ibid. 5.2.1.
50. Ibid. 4.3.9.
51. Ibid. 4.3.9.
52. Ibid. 6.7.37.
53. Ibid. 6.9.9.
54. Ibid. 6.9.4.
55. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Doctrine, 5 Vols, I. The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (Chicago, 1971), p.103.
4 - Trinity: The Christian G.o.d 1. The source is Gregory of Nyssa.
2. In a letter to Eusebius, his ally, and in the Thalia, quoted in Robert C. Gregg and Dennis E. Groh, Early Arianism, A View of Salvation (London, 1981), p.66.
3. Arius, Epistle to Alexander, 2.
4. Proverbs 8.22. Quoted on p.81-2.
5. John 1.3.
6. John 1.2.
7. Philippians 2:6-11, quoted on p.105.
8. Arius, Epistle to Alexander 6.2.
9. Athanasius, Against the Heathen, 41.
10. Anthanasius, On the Incarnation, 54.
11. This differs from the doctrinal manifesto usually known as the Nicene Creed, which was actually composed at the Council of Constantinople in 381.
12. Athanasius, On the Synods of Ariminium and Seleucia, 41.1.
13. Athanasius, Life of Antony, 67.
14. Basil, On the Holy Spirit, 28.66.
15. Ibid.
16. Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius, 3.
17. Gregory of Nyssa, Answer to Eunomius's Second Book.
18. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses, 2.164.
19. Basil, Epistle 234.1.
20. Oration, 31.8.
21. Gregory of Nyssa, AW Three G.o.ds.
22. G.L. Prestige, G.o.d in Patristic Thought (London, 1952), p.3OO.
23. Gregory of Nyssa, Not Three G.o.ds.
24. Gregory of n.a.z.ianzus, Oration, 40:41.
25. Gregory of n.a.z.ianzus, Oration, 29:6-10.
26. Basil, Epistle, 38:4.
27. On the Trinity vii.4.7.
28. Confessions i.i. (trans. Henry Chadwick) (Oxford, 1991), p.3.
29. Ibid. VIII vii (17), p. 145.
30. Ibid. VIII xii (28), p.i52.
31. Ibid. VIII xii (29), pp. 152-3. Pa.s.sage from St Paul, Romans 13:13-14.
32. Ibid. Xxvii (26), p.194.
33. Ibid. Vxxvii (38), p-201.
34. Ibid.
35. On the Trinity VIII.ii.3.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid. X.x.i4.
38. Ibid. X.xi.i8.
39. Ibid.
40. Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition (Oxford, 1983), p.79.
41. Augustine, On the Trinity xiii.
42. Ibid.
43. Enchyridion 26.27.
44. On Female Dress, I, 1.
45. Letter 243, 10.
46. The Literal Meaning of Genesis, IX, V, 9.
47. Letter XI.
48. Ibid.
49. The Celestial Hierarchy, I.
50. The Divine Names, II, 7.
51. Ibid. VII, 3.
52. Ibid. XIII, 3.
53. Ibid. VII, 3.
54. Ibid. I.
55. Mystical Theology, 3.
56. The Divine Names, IV, 3.
57. Ambigua, Migne, PG 91. 1088c.
5 - Unity: The G.o.d of Islam 1. Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Sira, 145, quoted in A. Guillaume (trans.), The Life of Muhammad (London, 1955), p.160.
2. Koran 96:1. In his translation, Muhammad Asad supplements the elliptical language of the Koran by adding words in square brackets.
3. Ibn Ishaq, Sira, 153, in Guillaume (trans.), A Life of Muhammad, p.io6.
4. Ibid.
5. Jalal ad-Din Suyuti, al-itiqan fi'ulum al aq'ran in Rodinson, Mohammed (trans. Anne Carter) (London, 1971), p.74- 6. Bukhari, Hadith 1.3. Quoted in Martin Lings, Muhammad, His Life Based On the Earliest Sources (London, 1983), pp.44-5.
7. 'Expostulation and Reply'.
