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The Church Fathers · c. 356–360

On the Trinity

De Trinitate

Hilary of Poitiers · c. 310–367

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What it is

Twelve books written in exile in Asia Minor, bringing the Greek arguments against Arianism into Latin for a Western church that had barely followed the controversy.

Why it lasted

The first major Latin trinitarian theology, and the reason its author is called the Athanasius of the West.

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12 sections · complete, from De Trinitate libri duodecim (stoa0149b.stoa012.opp-lat1).

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