as the grammar of wondrous divine love that freely gives of itself to others and creates community, mutuality, and shared life. In God’s work of creation, reconciliation, and redemption, God is true to Godself; God does not act “out of character.” On the contrary, loving in freedom is the way God is eternally God. I want to expand this thesis by offering three additional interpretative statements about the doctrine of the Trinity.15 1. To confess that God is triune is to affirm that the life of the