Trinity, greatly facilitating the church’s recognition of the personal nature of God. Moreover, it sheds light on the meaning of the literal sense of Scripture, for it attests that the widest theological context should be taken into consideration. Sanders stresses that the method flows from recognition of the missions of the Son and the Spirit and so depends on the fullness of canonical revelation and our own knowledge of the Son and the Spirit, from which we can then reread the OT canonically.25