Christians claim that the deepest mystery of life is found in God, and that the identity of God is Trinitarian. God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How can we understand this mystery, and what difference does it make for our lives? Following Aquinas, we can say that the mystery of the Trinity helps us understand something of ourselves and our world, since we are made in the image of God, and that image is Trinitarian. The deepest foundation of the world is personal, and indeed, it pertains to personal communion. This way of thinking about reality offers us a helpful contemporary alternative to visions of reality that ignore or deny personhood (beings endowed with intelligence, love, freedom) as something central to the meaning of life.
24 September 2022
Why the Trinity Matters
Lecture Four of the Online Professors Series 2021-2022, with Fr Thomas Joseph White, OP, DPhil (Oxon), STL, Rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
Christians claim that the deepest mystery of life is found in God, and that the identity of God is Trinitarian. God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How can we understand this mystery, and what difference does it make for our lives? Following Aquinas, we can say that the mystery of the Trinity helps us understand something of ourselves and our world, since we are made in the image of God, and that image is Trinitarian. The deepest foundation of the world is personal, and indeed, it pertains to personal communion. This way of thinking about reality offers us a helpful contemporary alternative to visions of reality that ignore or deny personhood (beings endowed with intelligence, love, freedom) as something central to the meaning of life.
Christians claim that the deepest mystery of life is found in God, and that the identity of God is Trinitarian. God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How can we understand this mystery, and what difference does it make for our lives? Following Aquinas, we can say that the mystery of the Trinity helps us understand something of ourselves and our world, since we are made in the image of God, and that image is Trinitarian. The deepest foundation of the world is personal, and indeed, it pertains to personal communion. This way of thinking about reality offers us a helpful contemporary alternative to visions of reality that ignore or deny personhood (beings endowed with intelligence, love, freedom) as something central to the meaning of life.
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