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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 208. Chapters: Trinity, Icon, Tarot, Ancient of Days, Massacre of the Innocents, Crucifix, Cross, Labarum, Passion, Poor Man's Bible, Tree of Jesse, Nativity of Jesus in art, Halo, Depiction of Jesus, Harrowing of Hell, Hand of God, God the Father in Western art, Hetoimasia, Veil of Veronica, Monza ampullae, Donor portrait, Saint George and the Dragon, Saint symbolism, Flight into Egypt, St Augustine Gospels, Typology, Christ treading on the beasts, Life of Christ, Epitaphios, Stations of the Cross, Christian symbolism, Parable of the Ten Virgins, Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Dante's Satan, Life of the Virgin, Lamb of God, Golden Legend, Thirty pieces of silver, Christianized myths and imagery, Denial of Peter, Mérode Altarpiece, Nine Worthies, Acheiropoieta, Pseudo-Kufic, Descent from the Cross, Cephalophore, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Aureola, Evangelist portrait, Retablo, Lamentation of Christ, Adoration of the Magi, Crux gemmata, Holy Trinity Icon, Four Evangelists, Mass of Saint Gregory, Early Christian art and architecture, Andachtsbilder, Divine countenance, Road to Emmaus appearance, Asterius of Amasia, Stations of the Resurrection, Heavenly host, Dogmatic Sarcophagus, Wilgefortis, Animals in Christian art, Hellmouth, Bosom of Abraham Trinity, Finding in the Temple, Globus cruciger, Maestà, Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Fountain of Life, Saint Luke painting the Virgin, Marriage of the Virgin, Doom, Chrismon, Orans, Ángel arcabucero, Nativity of Jesus in later culture, Tetramorph, Reverse perspective, Hell icon, Holy Spirit in Christian art, Riza, Holy Kinship, Gates of hell, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Episcopa Theodora, St. Joseph's dream, Orant, Proskynetarion, Saint James the Moor-slayer, Icon case. Excerpt: The Christian doctrine of the Trinity, one of the most important in mainstream Christian faith, teaches the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons (Greek hypostases), in One Divine Being (Greek: Ousia), called the Godhead (from Old English: Godhood), the Divine Essence of God. According to this doctrine, God exists as three persons but is one God, meaning that God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have exactly the same nature or being as God the Father in every way. Whatever attributes and power God the Father has, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have as well. "Thus, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are also eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely loving, omniscient." The doctrine developed from the biblical language used in New Testament passages such as the baptismal formula in and took substantially its present form by the end of the 4th century as a result of controversies concerning the proper sense in which to apply to God and Christ terms such as "person", "nature", "essence", and "substance". Trinitarianism contrasts with Nontrinitarian positions which include Binitarianism (one deity/two persons), Unitarianism (one deity/one person), the Oneness or Modalism belief, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' view of the Godhead as three separate beings who are one in purpose rather than essence. The "Shield of the Trinity" or "Scutum Fidei" diagram of traditional Western Christian symbolism.The English word Trinity is derived from Latin Trinitas, meaning "the number three, a triad". This abstract noun is formed from the adjective trinus (three each, threefold, triple), as ...