Later the doctrine of the Trinity was elaborated by the Early Church in the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, not in order explain it but rather to rule out erroneous explanations and to safeguard the truth of the facts, revealed by Our Lord and enshrined in the Scriptures, from being undermined by human speculation.

It is noteworthy that the great Christian writers of the Early Church, the Church Fathers, deplored the necessity, in defence of true religion, to formulate technical theological definitions of the Being of God, which they did not believe to be a proper subject for human analysis and definition. For them, it has been well said, “…the ground they trod was holy ground, the mysteries they handled, things of awe”. (1)