The Politics of the Trinity                                   Michael Knowles

 

Introduction

A new vision of reality

God in Judaism

God in Islam

At the core of Christianity

The politics of the Trinity

Conclusion

 

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Conclusion

“God is more truly thought than he is uttered” says Augustine “and exists more truly than he is thought’. We see in a glass darkly. Puzzling reflections in a mirror. Not yet face to face. We contemplate the truths of revelation as contained in the Scriptures of the Church as the Church expounds them to us and we draw what conclusions we can. Through faith we seek understanding “in order” as Augustine tells us “to see ineffably that which is ineffable” (Bk1 ch.1). We can only do our best. Our words fail us. We can only grope towards what we sense is right. The one indivisible three Person God, Father Son and Spirit, is the Maker, Mode and End of all creation. To him we shall all return. Their oneness, equality, community and indivisibility is  source, blueprint and meaning of love and our final destiny. We share in the divinity of Christ when we live out the oneness, equality and community of the Trinity in every aspect of our existence; and a society is Christian only when it strives to reproduce in relationships, personal, social, civic, political, economic and cultural, locally, nationally and internationally, the reality of the Trinity.

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