have posited an immanence of triunity in God himself before and apart from the world. Karl Barth, the twentieth-century catalyst of a renaissance in the doctrine of the Trinity, summed it up best: Where the reality is there must also be the corresponding possibility. In other words, if God is “he who loves in freedom,” and if God is truly who he is among us in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, and if God’s salvation is completely free and gracious: then the triunity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit
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