Category Archives: Holy Trinity

The Trinity Ain’t a Puzzle–It’s Life!

Posted on 31 July 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I don’t usually watch videos or listen to podcasts, but this discussion by two evangelical theologians, Dr Wes Arblaster and Dr Ethan Smith, caught my attention. These two men are knee-deep in the Fathers and have caught the patristic phronema. … Continue reading →

Posted in Holy Trinity | 1 Comment

Platonism and the Trinity

Posted on 29 March 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

By Alexander Earl That it is especially with the Platonists that we must carry on our disputations on matters of theology, their opinions being preferable to those of all other philosophers. —Augustine of Hippo1 Whether in education or previous adherence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexander Earl, Holy Trinity | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 1 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance | Tagged , , , , , | 10 Comments

Thinking Trinity: So what if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father

Posted on 25 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the paralytic: And when he returned to Caper′na-um … Continue reading →

Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Thinking Trinity: The Secret of the Homoousion

Posted on 23 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We believe in one God the Father all powerful, maker of all things both seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten begotten from the Father, that is from the substance of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 18 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared (1) that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and (2) that he is “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father, they probably did not … Continue reading →

Posted in Athanasius, Holy Trinity | Tagged , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Reading our way out of the Trinity

Posted on 23 January 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Over the past several years, I have watched on social media evangelicals and Protestants vigorously contest the doctrine of the Trinity. Is it supported by the plain reading of Holy Scripture? Is it truly biblical? Analytic philosopher Dale Tuggy has … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Holy Trinity | Tagged , , , , , , , | 34 Comments

Andrei Rublev’s Icon and the Communion of the Holy Trinity

Posted on 1 November 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel
Posted in Holy Trinity | Comments Off on Andrei Rublev’s Icon and the Communion of the Holy Trinity