threeness

plural threenesses

1. countableuncountableThe state of being three; triunity; trinity.

   [...] This statement focuses more on God's oness than on his threeness.

   2012, Gilles Emery and Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook Of The Trinity

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   the Cappadocian Fathers provided a way of speaking about the Trinity which would create a balance between threeness and oneness.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin Books, page 218

2. countableuncountableA group of three; a trio.

   Synonyms: threesome

3. countableuncountableChristianityThe Trinity.

   Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]

   2010, Jeff Bachl, translated by Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme, Shambhala, translation of original by Jakob Boehme

1. ChristianityIn Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity.

   I'm not sure why God needs three forms — Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I don't know why we just can't say God. ... Jon went on for a while talking about the Trinity, the "Threeness and Oneness." It didn't sound as if he was convinced, though.

   2001, Brian Payton, Hail Mary Corner, Dundurn

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   [...] and I might not look at the brightness of His face save through a sheen mirror between me and Him that shields my eyes. So I have often seen the Holy Threeness, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, three in one, and but a little while might I bear the light.

   1949, Margaret Anne Williams, Glee-wood

   Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]

   2010, Jeff Bachl, translated by Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme, Shambhala, translation of original by Jakob Boehme