treenighetslära

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of treenighet (Trinity) +‎ -s- +‎ lära (doctrine).

Noun

treenighetslära c

  1. (Christianity) doctrine of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
    • 1862, Viktor Rydberg, Bibelns lära om Kristus [The Bible's Teaching About Christ]‎[1], Handelstidningens bolags tryckeri, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 27 November 2025:
      [Vad] de egentliga filosoferna beträffar, [har] de antingen förkastat eller blott till namnet upptagit treenighetsläran.
      As for the actual philosophers, they have either rejected or only nominally accepted the doctrine of the Trinity.
    • 2009 December 22, Teologiska rummet, “Om treenigheten [On the Trinity]”, in Sveriges Radio[2], archived from the original on 27 November 2025:
      Påven Benedictus den sextonde lär ha sagt att tal om treenighetsläran bara leder till "eländigt stammande".
      Pope Benedict XVI supposedly said talking about the doctrine of the Trinity only leads to "miserable stuttering".
    • 2021, Fredrik Heiding, “Hur olika är gudomspersonerna? – Treenighetens mysterium hos Thomas av Aquino [How different are the divine persons? – The mystery of the Trinity in Thomas Aquinas]”, in Signum[3], number 3, archived from the original on 27 November 2025:
      Kritik har på senare tid riktats mot Thomas av Aquinos treenighetslära.
      Criticism has recently been directed at Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of the Trinity.

Declension

Declension of treenighetslära
nominative genitive
singular indefinite treenighetslära treenighetsläras
definite treenighetsläran treenighetslärans
plural indefinite
definite

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