Category Archives: Holy Trinity

“Before the creation of the world, the Father, Son, and Spirit set their love upon us and planned for us to share and know and experience the trinitarian life itself”

Posted on 25 April 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

From all eternity, God is not alone and solitary, but lives as Father, Son, and Spirit in a rich and glorious fellowship of utter oneness. There is no emptiness in this circle, no depression or fear or insecurity. The trinitarian … Continue reading →

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“While we do not see how there can be Father, Son and Spirit who are all one God, we can show that it is not nonsense”

Posted on 31 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

That God is one and three is, of course, for Aquinas a profound mystery which we could not hope to know apart from divine revelation. But we can only begin to understand what he has to say about it if … Continue reading →

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The Father Gives the Son in the Power of the Holy Spirit

Posted on 23 August 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Thomas Smail If the relationships of Father, Son and Spirit within the life of God correspond to their relationships as revealed in the gospel, then we may say that the Spirit has his being in a movement of self-giving … Continue reading →

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The Filioque Dispute

Posted on 19 August 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Earlier this week I received an email from an Orthodox laywoman who finds herself confused and distressed by two videos on the Filioque produced by an Orthodox apologist and a Roman Catholic apologist. Below is my response (edited and revised … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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