#28 - "The Father is Greater Than I": How John 14:28 Shaped the Trinitarian Debate

A close reading of John 14:28 — "The Father is greater than I" — and the long history that made this single sentence a battleground. We trace how patristic, medieval, and Reformation theologians read Jesus' words as compatible with the unity of God, and how that longstanding reception was later challenged by anti‑Trinitarian thinkers culminating in the Socinian rejection of consubstantiality. This episode sets the historical scene: the creeds, the commentators, and the controversies that turned one Gospel verse into a decisive test-case for competing visions of Christ and God.