work of the Son and Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity thus serves both as an identification of the dramatis personae and as a precis of the drama itself. “He is risen indeed!” The Latin church father Tertullian defines a person as “one who speaks and acts.” Speaking and acting are, as we have seen, the main ingredients of drama. The script of a play is mainly dialogue, with occasional stage directions, and the dialogue often carries the action because saying
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