As the decades passed between 325 and 381, when the second general council of the church met, leaders in the Arian debate slowly clarified their use of person. Three so-called Cappadocian Fathers—Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Basil the Great—led in this achievement. The Cappadocians used the social analogy, but they saw that the distinctions between the three divine persons were solely in their inner divine relations. There are not three gods. God is one divine Being in three “persons.”
