The mystery of the Trinity in the life of the Church in the period of the Apostolic Fathers and the first apologetes

ENGLISH ANNOTATION The present work aims at sketching the role of the mystery of the Trinity in early church (to the end of 2nd century). Basing itself upon the works of the Apostolic Fathers, first apologists and other Christian literature, it analyzes Trinitarian motives in the church's liturgy and life of the time. This historical layer reflects the first stages of consciousness emergence of the Trinitarian dogma. Study seeks to examine, what ways led to the development of an explicit doctrine of the Trinity, believed, taught, and confessed by the church of the first and second centuries. KEY WORDS Trinity Church Divinity Christology Pneumatolog