TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY: COLLECTION OF RESOURCES

Rublev's Trinity"Trinity" by Andrei Rublev



Video Series: Open Table Conference 2018

Frederick Buechner

"That life is grace, for instance—the givenness of it, the fathomlessness of it, the endless possibilities of its becoming transparent to something extraordinary beyond itself. That—as I picked up somewhere in Jung and whittled into the ash stick I use for tramping around through the woods sometimes—vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit, which I take to mean that in the long run, whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you. That if we really had our eyes open, we would see that all moments are key moments. That he who does not love remains in death. That Jesus is the Word made flesh who dwells among us full of grace and truth. On good days I might add a few more to the list. On bad days it's possible there might be a few less." - FB

John MacMurray

Baxter Kruger

Paul Young

Brad Harper

Paul Metzger

Roger Newell

Rob Bell

Bud Frimoth

Peggy & Tony Campolo

Post Debate Pronouncement from Tony

Brian McLaren

Brian Zahnd

Greg Boyd

Brad Jersak

Eugene Peterson & Bono

 

The Trinity means that God is not some remote, unknowable Deity, a prisoner in his aloofness or shut up in his solitariness, but on the contrary, the God who will not be without us whom he has created for fellowship with himself, the God who is free to go outside of himself, to share in the life of his creatures and enable them to share in his own eternal Life and Love. 

It means that God is not limited by our feeble capacities or incapacities, but that in his grace and outgoing love he freely and joyously condescends to enter into fellowship with us, to communicate himself to us, and to be received and be known by us.

Moreover, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity means that God does not surrender his transcendence in condescending to be one with us in Jesus Christ, but it does mean that the more we are allowed to know God in himself in this way the more wonderful we know him to be, a God who infinitely exceeds all our thoughts and words about him, but who in spite of that reveals himself tenderly and intimately to us through his Son and his Spirit. —Thomas F. Torrance

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