Friday, August 2, 2019

The use of "Trinity" to Describe the LDS Godhead in 1958


In a volume originally written in 1958, Wallace F. Bennett, a Latter-day Saint author, used the term “Trinity” to describe the LDS belief in the Godhead, showing that LDS, even up to this period, used “Trinity” as did Tertullian and others did—a triad and not in the Latin/Creedal sense:

Like other Christians, the Mormons understand that the Holy Ghost is the third member of the Trinity, or, as they say, the Godhead. (Wallace F. Bennett, Why I am a Mormon [3d ed.; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1964], 222-23)