acts toward and works in us, through whom we are drawn into the inner life of God. Reasoning back from this two-part series of facts, we can then conclude that the one God is tri-une and bears within himself the element of three-ness without abolishing his oneness. The New Testament, therefore, does not speak in a speculative way about the Trinity but, rather, speaks about it insofar as it has become the form of our existence, or, conversely, it deals with our existence insofar as it has become trinitarian,