mountainman

Yes, my suggestion is to spend some time searching for the
post humously published articles of Sir Isaac Newton upon this
subject. His opinion is that it was introduced a millenium after
the Council of Nicaea, and by means of at least two notable
accounts of corruption of the NT scripture.

His opinions are to be separated from others, IMO, because he
was obviously gifted with insight into the fields of mathematics
and physics, and because his views have not been refuted in
the centuries since he formulated them.



Pete Brown

robto

Thanks to those who responded:

Armstrong's chapter doesn't really go into the early development of the idea. I'm looking for something much more in depth and focussed on the early years. (50-400 AD).

Tertullian is fascinating, but is only one data point.

Hanson apparently covers only the later part of the development.

Any other suggestions?

Clivedurdle

I'm not sure much exists on the web but i would seriously look at druidic use of three.