There is no passage of Scripture in the Bible that demonstrates and explains the entire doctrine of the Trinity and therefore it was the intention of the theologians and early church doctrines to try to understand the enigma of "One God" (Fortman, 1972). The slow evolution of the doctrine of the Trinity since its inception is the result of the constraints of linguistic and theoretical theology (Hunt, 2004). The purpose of this report is to outline the historical evolution of the understanding of the Trinity from the New Testament to the present day. The Apostolic Fathers clearly indicated and presented evidence of their belief in the 'three pre-existing beings'. Most of them were clear in their divinity of Christ, but did not define the distinct personality of the divinity of the Holy Spirit and had no evident understanding of the 'divine person' and 'divine nature'. The Apostolic Fathers clearly indicated and gave evidence of their belief in the "three pre-existing beings". Most of them were clear in their divinity of Christ, but did not define the distinct personality of divinity in the Holy Spirit and had no evident understanding of the “divine person” and “divine nature.” No Trinitarian doctrine was advanced because they had no awareness of a Trinitarian issue. By using a pre-existing Logos (binitarian) model to explain Jesus as the Son of God and his divinity in relation to the Father, they inadvertently created an inferiorizing notion that allowed the term “subordinationism” to be linked to their ideas (Fortman, 1972) . Origen, a great Eastern theologian, rejected the two-stage theory and moved to an alternative Platonic hierarchical framework for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. By... middle of paper... New York: CrossroadGiles, Kevin. Priscilla's documents. Summer 2012, vol. 26 Issue 3, p12-23. 12p.George, T. (2011). Reading the Bible with the Reformers. Retrieved from http://www.beesondivinity.com/readingthebiblewiththereformers Rahner, K. (1970). The Trinity. (J. Donceel, trans.). New York: Crossroads. Rahner, K. (1978). Thomas Aquinas on the incomprehensibility of God. The Journal of Religion, 58, 107 - 125. Rausch, T. (2003). Catholicism in the third millennium. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press Tuggy, Dale, “Trinity,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Forthcoming URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/ sum2014/entries /trinità/Viviano, B. (1989). The gospel according to Matthew. In R. E. Brown, J. A. Fitzmyer, & R. E. Murphy (eds.), Jerome's New Biblical Commentary. (p. 631). London: Geoffrey Chapman.