A Plea to Recover the Wonder and Meaning of the Triune God
M. James Sawyer
Resurrecting the Trinity: A Plea to Recover the Wonder and Meaning of the Triune God
© 2017 by M. James Sawyer
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Chapter 1: The Trinity: Why Is It Important?
Chapter 2: God and the Boxes He Is Put Into
Chapter 3: Jesus: The Way into the Trinity
Chapter 5: The Son of the Father
Appendix: He, She, or It? Gender and the Holy Spirit
Why does the Trinity even matter? Isn’t it a mystery beyond human understanding? Who am I to think that I could possibly figure out God? These are honest and important questions. Let me ask a few questions that will tell you my answer. What if we could see what Jesus sees? What if we could know what he knows, and feel what he feels as he gazes into his Father’s eyes? Scripture says that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God the Father and lives in face-to-face intimacy with him in the Spirit. Have you ever thought about that? What if we could sit with Jesus? What if we could have Jesus’ mind, share in his faith, love with his love, care with his heart in the Spirit? What if we could be a part of his relationship with his Father, and of his ...
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About Resurrecting the Trinity: A Plea to Recover the Wonder and Meaning of the Triune GodThe doctrine of the Trinity confounds many Christians. Because they do not have a proper understanding of this truth, they therefore lack the means to make it meaningful in their theology, worship, and everyday life. Resurrecting the Trinity will change this. In non-academic prose, this book explains the fuzziness and apathy surrounding the Trinity. It provides a fascinating and erudite journey as to how it got this way, and then goes on to show how it is the center of everything and how this glorious doctrine exudes with love, vitality, and richness. An expert in historical and systematic theology, the author contends that “the existence of God as Trinity was the central affirmation of the ancient church and the truth from which all other theological understanding flowed. However, for us Western Christians (both Protestant and Catholic) the Trinity has faded into obscurity, the light shed by its reality dimmed to the point of nearly flickering out. While we still verbally affirm the truth of the Trinity, for all practical purposes we have lost its meaning, and in the process lost the biblical picture of Jesus Christ as Lord of creation as well. Were we to deny the Trinity altogether, it is doubtful much would change in our churches on a day-to-day basis.” |
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