Rowan Williams on the Trinity
Sven quotes an explanation by Rowan Williams of the nature of the Christian Trinity. This is interesting because it’s aimed specifically at Muslims. For Muslims, God is One and indivisible. Hence, when they hear bad explanations of the Trinity, they get very worried because it sounds like Christians believe in three gods, not a single God at all. And, for a muslim, the greatest sin is putting any other creature on the same level as God. WIlliams manages to explain that, for the Christian as for the Muslim, there is but one God. The Three Persons who Christians distinguish are not separate gods but are aspects of the one Godhead. As Williams explains it:
we say that the one God, who is both source and outward-flowing life, who is both Father and Son, is also active as the power that draws everything back to God…This is the power we call Holy Spirit.
I’ve also posted before about my own humble metaphor on the nature of the Trinity.
pax et bonum
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