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Tag Archives: Holy Trinity
Dionysian Ponderings: To let be or not let be–that is the question
Did the Lord God Almighty have to create the world? This is the question I now wish to pose to St Dionysius the Areopagite. It is a pressing question for Christian students of the Areopagite because he is so deeply … Continue reading
Ainulindalë: The God Who is Music and Beauty
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged angels, beauty, divine creation, God, Holy Trinity, music, Silmarillion, Tolkien
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Perichoretic Trinity in Transcendence
Just how personal are the divine persons? We know that when the Eastern Church sought an appropriate vocabulary by which to distinguish the Father, Son, and Spirit from the divine substance, it finally settled on the impersonal word hypostasis, which … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Trinity
Tagged baptism of Christ, David Hart, divine communion, divine persons, God, Holy Trinity, hypostasis, Khaled Anatolios, social trinity
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The Cosmic Dance that is God the Holy Trinity
After his harrowing battle with the Un-man and his rebirth in the bowels of Perelandra, Elwin Ransom finds his way to a hidden “valley pure rose-red, with ten or twelve of the glowing peaks about it, and in the centre … Continue reading
Division of Being in St Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium
by Robert F. Fortuin The ultimate division of all that exists is made by the line between ‘created’ and ‘uncreated,’ the one being regarded as a cause of what has come into being, the other as coming into being thereby. … Continue reading
Posted in Gregory of Nyssa, Robert Fortuin
Tagged creator, creature, divine being, divine infinity, divine simplicity, God, Gregory of Nyssa, Holy Trinity
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Thomas F. Torrance and the Fallen God
“Perhaps the most fundamental truth which we have to learn in the Christian Church,” declares the great Scottish theologian Thomas F. Torrance, “or rather, relearn since we have suppressed it, is that the Incarnation was the coming of God to … Continue reading
Posted in T. F. Torrance, Theology
Tagged atonement, fallen human nature, God, Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ, original sin, Thomas Torrance, vicarious humanity
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St John of Damascus on the Holy Trinity
Perhaps the greatest theological challenge of the early Church was the articulation of the trinitarian identity of the one God. How do we express both the unity and distinctiveness of the divine persons, or as Charles Twombly puts it, their … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Charles Twombly, coinherence, Holy Trinity, hypostasis, indwelling, John of Damascus, perichoresis
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