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- Title
The Holy Trinity: Between Mystery and Analysis.
- Authors
Patterson, Colin
- Abstract
Abstract: Two significant strands of trinitarian theology, the analytic and the apophatic, emphasize considerations of logical consistency and divine incomprehensibility respectively. This article seeks to mediate between these two seemingly opposed lines of thought by arguing for a fuller awareness of the particular mystery associated with the trinitarian notion of ‘person’. By specifying more closely this mystery of divine personhood, I qualify an overzealous apophaticism and also open up some scope for analytic approaches. I then highlight an implication of the mystery of divine personhood that any proposition linking together person‐language and nature‐language (e.g. ‘the Son is God’) necessarily contains its own mystery and cannot be understood in analytic terms.
- Subjects
TRINITY; GOD; THEOLOGY; NEGATIVE theology; CHRISTIANITY; DOCTRINAL theology
- Publication
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 3, p381
- ISSN
1463-1652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijst.12308