The Doctrine of the Trinity Part 2: A Theological practice for an ethical center?
What if the doctrine of the trinity isn’t about numbers, and trying to explain what and how God is metaphysically? What if the doctrine is framed as a theology, specifically a contemplative practice to implement into regular practice, like prayer? What if that practice became a form of mimicking the Good? In the grammar of the doctrine one finds room to contemplate God on his own terms, really just one term: unity. If there is one God the unity of the Father, Son and Spirit are constitutes whatever that one incomprehensible Good is. In this video we explore moving away from the inevitable errors of trying to pretend one can reduce God to an identity, because it’s not clear ultimately what an identity is. On one hand this video attempts to orient the Christian to stop pretending one can act like whatever “God” means is a transparent term; and yet, one the other learn to acknowledge the doctrine accepts the revelation that title-God-is no less than the self revelation we are given from the Father, in the Son, by the Spirit and ultimately in the hope it’ll be given back to him. Framing a theology that centers their unity as the ideal one of the future gives our focus a regular point of reference to practice wondering towards and learning about; and, in turn this will allow one to consider the doctrine as not only a central one to all others, but as an ethic cultivated from a contemplative practice of this theology. Join me as we try to orient our heart mind and soul towards the name we are baptized in, for the sake of becoming like the Good Spirit we are made alive in.