Trinity

noun, plural Trinities for 2, 4.
1.
Also called Blessed Trinity, Holy Trinity. the union of three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, or the threefold personality of the one Divine Being.
2.
a representation of this in art.
3.
Trinity Sunday.
4.
(lowercase) a group of three; triad.
5.
(lowercase) the state of being threefold or triple.
noun (pl) -ties
1.
a group of three
2.
the state of being threefold
noun
1.
(Christian theol) Also called Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity. the union of three persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one Godhead
2.
See Trinity Sunday
3.
Holy Trinity, a religious order founded in 1198

Trinity definition

A doctrine of Christianity that there is one God and three divine persons in the one God: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.

a word not found in Scripture, but used to express the doctrine of the unity of God as subsisting in three distinct Persons. This word is derived from the Gr. trias, first used by Theophilus (A.D. 168-183), or from the Lat. trinitas, first used by Tertullian (A.D. 220), to express this doctrine. The propositions involved in the doctrine are these: 1. That God is one, and that there is but one God (Deut. 6:4; 1 Kings 8:60; Isa. 44:6; Mark 12:29, 32; John 10:30). 2. That the Father is a distinct divine Person (hypostasis, subsistentia, persona, suppositum intellectuale), distinct from the Son and the Holy Spirit. 3. That Jesus Christ was truly God, and yet was a Person distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit. 4. That the Holy Spirit is also a distinct divine Person.