Augustine before him-roots the divine attribute of love in the very nature of the Trinity. The Trinity enriches our understanding of righteousness What’s more, we’re left with a conception of divinity that fails to account for one of the most fundamental aspects of God’s being: love. If we jettison the doctrine of the Trinity, we forfeit one of the key doctrines that distinguishes Christianity from other monotheistic religions. Why does it make any difference if we say God is Father, Son, and Spirit, instead of just one person-like Allah? In his Mobile Ed course on Trinitarian theology, Leithart argues that the doctrine of the Trinity underscores the differences between Christianity and other religions. The Trinity distinguishes Christianity from other religions
Here are five ways the doctrine of the Trinity is surprisingly practical, all drawn from Peter Leithart’s Mobile Ed course on Trinitarian theology and his book Traces of the Trinity.
As we understand more and more what the Bible reveals to us about the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, the more practical this doctrine becomes. It tells us what God is like, it tells us what to be like, it says something about the kind of God we worship and the way God interacts with us and with the world. And not just for the way we think about God the Trinity should affect the way we live the Christian life. Pastor and theologian Peter Leithart says that, far from being an abstract theological concept only for the most pedigreed theologians, the doctrine of the Trinity has profound, practical implications. In fact, when Christians attempt to explain the Trinity, they often stumble into metaphors that sound suspiciously like the very heresies Trinitarian theology was developed to counteract!īut even if you conquer the intimidating task of explaining the meaning of the Trinity, you may face an even more momentous challenge: demonstrating why it matters. Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Email LinkedInĮven the best metaphors fail to capture the complexities of God’s being.
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