“For: the Institute of contemporary and Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Blue Online Worship Theology Course with Dan Wilt”
I’ve been thinking about the Trinity quite a bit, largely because I hope to write a song on the subject as my final project but also because it is just something that deserves more of my thought. Anyway, I have a few thoughts I’d like to share. The one is something I picked up from this grad school class on Christian/Sacramental Marriage I took this summer from Dr. Mark Lowery at the University of Dallas (a small, private, catholic, liberal arts school) this last summer.
One way the Trinitarian nature of God is reflected in his human image bearers is family. A family, in the sense of two believers who have fully entered into a sacramental and covenant marriage, consists of a man who becomes one flesh with a woman. They are still two distinct persons yet they are one in that they permanently belong together. Out of this permanent, exclusive, heterosexual love a child may be born who is also part of this family. This child is distinctly independent of its parents yet it permanently belongs to them by nature.
So perhaps it could be helpful (so it was suggested) to understand specifically the Holy Spirit with this analogy of the family and children. Children emanate from parents in a similar way to the Spirit emanating from the Father and the Son. And when Christ ascended he then left us his Spirit, also his Father’s, to empower, teach and dwell in his people.
I think I’ll leave my other thought on the Trinity for another post…
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