I am trying to determine the pre-Nicene model of the Trinity. How can I do this? I tried Pre-Nicene near Trinity Model near Trinity.
I suspect you are trying to be too restrictive. I would suggest that you simply start with a Books search of Trinity and then take a look at the resources that are offered and see, from a high level, which ones are likely discussing things from the time when the Nicene Creed was written and what was being addressed at the time with respect to the Trinity.
This might help https://www.logos.com/product/157989/early-christian-doctrines
Christian I would recommend doing some searches on a library collection based search term "Didache" - you will get the Didache, the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (other name for the Didache), and Commentaries on the Didache. In the absence of library resources there are a number of resources in the Logos store to look at. The Didache is one of the earliest teachings we have of the early Church, believed to have been written by or in the time of the Apostles. Commentaries will be useful to you as there are clear signals as to the belief in the Trinity during this time.
Also - I happened to notice that the Epistle of Barnabas discusses the Trinity in a possible reference within Gen 1:26. That was also dated very early and could shed some light on the topic.
You can also read people like Athansius to see what alternative models he argues against.
Building on that, you could just do a search on Pre-Nicene Trinity in your library if you want other scholar's views on the Pre-Nicene view of Trinity. If you want people alive during that time though, Athanasius would not be one of them as his writings were a good 30-60 years after the end of the pre-Nicene period.
If you want people alive during that time though, Athanasius would not be one of them as his writings were a good 30-60 years after the end of the pre-Nicene period.
Sort of ... Athanasius attended the Nicene Council as an assistant of Bishop Alexander of Alexandria. Athanasius was a strong opponent of Arianism which was a major pre-Nicene alternative view of the Trinity. So I think of Athanasius as being in the middle of the struggle for the definition of the Trinity. As for alternative views besides that of Arius, I think of Sabellius, Theodotus of Byzantium, Theodotus the Shoemaker, Paul of Samosata, Macedonius of Constantinople ... no, I didn't know their names off the top of my head ... I looked up proponents of the positions I happened to remember so this is a start of a list not a complete list in any sense.
Try using ante-nicene instead of pre-nicene.
Do this search with the new experimental search in the beta.app.logos.com logos application.
try this link on for size https://beta.app.logos.com/search?kind=semantic&q=ante-Nicene+model+of+the+Trinity&resources=allResources&syntax=v2
As in this case ante-nicene IS the same as pre-nicene unless I am totally off, and I welcome any correction on this if I am wrong.
EDIT: Also try a search "ante-nicene NEAR trinity"