Nyssan in Against Eunomius uses a creator-creature distinction to signify that Jesus in not a part …show more content…
This is not to say that the Father, Son, and Spirit are three separate persons, but rather to emphasize “every operation which extends from God to the creation…has its origin from the Father, and proceeds through the Son, and is perfected in the Holy Spirit.” This is to say that the “constitution of the universe…comes to pass by the action of the Three, yet what does come to pass is not three things.” Nyssan here asserts that the universe could not be spoken into being without the full cooperation of all three persons of the Trinity. Each part of the Trinity has a distinct job in the Economic Trinity, and this strategy is used by Nyssan to emphasize that there truly is one God in three persons, unto which “life is wrought in us by the Father, and prepared by the Son, and depends on the will of the Holy