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Theology for the Curious
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Theology for the Curious
Ep.150 - I Was Just Wondering? - If God is Three, Why do we Call Him One?
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Christian orthodoxy has insisted that it is a monotheistic faith. It believes in one God. And yet it speaks and holds to this one God as being three! If God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then how can Christians continue to insist He is but one God? Why is it that no other world religion adheres to such an understanding of God—even the traditionally monotheistic religions of Islam and Judaism! Where did this understanding of God come from? After all, we find no where in the Bible where the word “trinity” is mentioned; so how do we know it’s a Bible based truth? Has the church always believed this? What did the early church say about it?
In this weeks episode, the curious team dig in to what is meant by the “threeness” of God. Looking back into the earliest accounts of the church fathers, and the understandings of the various church councils over the centuries, and the Bibles own presentation of God and His salvific purposes; the team seek to define what is meant by a three in one God. Along the way, they touch on historical attempts to define this triune being, (modalism, subordinationism and tritheism) that ultimately proved to be faulty and were collectively rejected. They also explore the concepts of diversity, unity and perichoresis!
Join the team this week as they dig deep into this historically significant bedrock of Christian orthodoxy
Further Reading
Here’s a bit of homework for you….we’ve included a few articles that compliment this episode….
The Holy Trinity - Christianity.com
Can We Explain the Trinity? - DesiringGod.org
Alister McGrath: Thinking About the Trinity - Christinity.org
What we’re reading?
As a feature to our notes, we are adding the book or books that we’ve browsed related to this episode…(including Michael Gaitley’s from within a more Roman Catholic framework)…enjoy!
Robert Letham — The Holy Trinity
Edited by John Thompson — Modern Trinitarian Perspectives
Michael Gaitley — The One Thing Is Three: How the Most Holy Trinity Explains Everything
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