‘Person’ and ‘Being’ in John Zizioulas' Trinitarian Theology: Conversations with Thomas Torrance and Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

The 318 Fathers at the First Council of Nicaea (325) began their profession of faith in the second article of the creed as follows: Confessing that: We believe in one God … And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father as only begotten, that is, from the essence of the Father, [ ek tes ousias tou patros ].