Programme 8: Three Ways of Being God

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Gerald thought that the Trinity was like the piano in the front parlour that nobody played and nobody dared chuck out. Trying this out on people, he finds the Trinity as a doctrine is alive and well. It’s movement, it’s gift, relationship, much more than a dry, dusty doctrine.

Questions:

1. Three persons, one God. It’s a mystery, but after this part of your journey with Gerald, can you say more than that about the Trinity?
2. What can the Trinity give us that we wouldn’t have without it?
3. We are told the Trinity is indivisible. Do you feel closer to one of its persons? Why?
4. Is doctrine more than a hedge against heresy? Can it help us from day to day?

“What is not a mystery and is paramount for humanity is the symbol of relationship because, in essence, it is three separate persons who are constantly relating in love, totally available to one another in love, but never losing each other in each other. And at the heart of human love is total availability but never the loss of self in another.”

Jack Dominian