Tag: Trinity
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Trinity Sunday
The Holy Trinity is impossible to understand, but we can probably understand what it means to be a Trinitarian Church: a Church that is called and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go out and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ in word and in deed to the world that God created and loves.…
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Trinity Sunday
We all know, or should know, that it is not possible for our human minds to grasp the deep mystery of the Trinity. Fortunately, then, our pastor did not attempt to explain the Trinity in church this morning. [The angel of the Corydon Presbyterian Church may have breathed a sigh of relief. At least, I…
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Thanking Another Thinker for Thoughts about the Trinity
Elizabeth Sands Wise has written a profound and beautiful reflection on the Trinity, and vocation, and grace, which I commend and which I hope many will read.
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Trinity Sunday
This is a sermon for Trinity Sunday; the text is Romans 8:1-4, 12-17, with a nod to Psalm 34; more or less as preached at Corydon Presbyterian Church this morning. Today is Trinity Sunday, when we are encouraged to think about what might be the most difficult thing we ever try to think about as…
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Question for Reflection and Discussion – Hebrews 2 17-18
One of the Uniform Series texts for Sunday, May 27 is Hebrews 2:17-18. Here is one question that might be worth considering in class: Sunday, May 27, is Trinity Sunday in the liturgical calendar. How does thinking about the Trinity, or “the Triune God,” affect the way we read this part of Hebrews? [This seems…
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Fifth Sunday of Easter
In class, after we listened to Handel, we ended up talking about the Trinity. That was a surprise. The Trinity is in Revelation 5, as one of my seminary professors used to say, “in kit form” – because it refers to the “one seated on the throne,” who we know is the Lord God, the…
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Christian Doctrine (5)
Summary notes for Chapter 5, “Who is God? The Doctrine of the Trinity” in Shirley Guthrie, Jr. Christian Doctrine (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994) 70-96. Guthrie’s exposition of Christian doctrine really begins with the preliminary “who are we as theologians?” and then with revelation – so far, so Calvinist, and Barthian. Now he has…
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Eternal Word
It seems to me that the way Nicene orthodoxy solves the problem of Jesus being the self-revelation of God (“of one substance with the Father …”) is fundamentally similar to the way Asharite tradition in Islam solves the problem of the Quran being the self-revelation of God (eternal, uncreated). It also seems to me that…
Matters of Interpretation 