The very mystical Cappadocian Fathers of fourth-century eastern Turkey eventually developed some highly sophisticated thinking on what we soon called the Trinity. then either it can’t be true or we don’t understand it! if it’s even possible that we could drop it tomorrow and it would be a forgettable, throwaway doctrine. If Trinity is supposed to describe the very heart of the nature of God, and yet it has almost no practical or pastoral implications in most of our lives. And it continues!īut 17 centuries of being missing in action - how could this have been true? Could this absence help us to understand how we might still be in the infancy stage of Christianity? Could it help explain the simple ineffectiveness and lack of transformation we witness in so much of the Christian world? When you are off at the center, the whole edifice is quite shaky and unsure of itself.
For the first time since fourth-century Cappadocia, the Trinity actually became an inspired subject of conversation and rather pleasant questioning in homes and restaurants. We would have to admit this was largely true until William Paul Young wrote his worldwide best-selling novel The Shack (Windblown Media, 2007), in the past decade. We must be willing to admit that, should the doctrine of the Trinity have to be dropped as false, the major part of religious literature could well remain virtually unchanged.”
In his classic study The Trinity (Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999), he said, “Christians are, in their practical life, almost mere ‘monotheists’. LET’s begin with the shocking and oft quoted idea from Karl Rahner, the German Jesuit who was such a major influence at the Second Vatican Council.
0 kommentar(er)
