Tag Archives: Holy Trinity

Dionysian Ponderings: To let be or not let be–that is the question

Posted on 8 July 2018 by

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 →

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Ainulindalë: The God Who is Music and Beauty

Posted on 12 February 2018 by

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 →

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Perichoretic Trinity in Transcendence

Posted on 3 September 2017 by

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 →

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The Cosmic Dance that is God the Holy Trinity

Posted on 26 June 2017 by

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 →

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Division of Being in St Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium

Posted on 11 July 2016 by

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 →

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Thomas F. Torrance and the Fallen God

Posted on 29 June 2016 by

“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 →

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St John of Damascus on the Holy Trinity

Posted on 3 May 2016 by

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 →

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