St. Gregory of Nyssa explains
below the belief of the Church in regards to the theology of the Trinitarian
unity in diversity.
“All that the Father is, we see
revealed in the Son; all that is the Son’s is the Father’s also; for the whole
Son dwells in the Father, and he has the whole Father dwelling in himself…The
Son who exists always in the Father can never be separated from him, nor can
the Spirit ever be divided from the Son who through the Spirit works all
things. He who receives the Father also receives at the same time the Son and
the Spirit. It is impossible to envisage any kind of severance or disjunction
between them: one cannot think of the Son apart from the Father, nor divided
the Spirit from the Son. There is between the three a sharing and a
differentiation that are beyond words and understanding. The distinction
between the persons does not impair the oneness of nature, nor does the shared
unity of essence lead to a confusion between the distinctive characteristics of
the persons. Do not be surprised that we should speak of the Godhead as being
at the same time both unified and differentiated. Using riddles, as it were, we
envisage a strange and paradoxical diversity in unity and unity in diversity”.
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