Word: trinitarian
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...Thus the paradoxical Christian knowledge of God inevitably came to be expressed in the trinitarian form: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three in one . . . This seems impossible to systematize, and indeed it does not make sense until we remember the historical facts and experiences out of which it arose...
...rigorously secular mind the total paradox must, like its parts, be "unto the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness." It is not irrational, but it is not the logic of two & two makes four. Theologically, it is the dialectical logic of that trinitarian oneness whose triunity is as much a necessity to the understanding of Godhead as higher mathematics is to the measurement of motion. Religiously, its logic, human beyond rationality, is the expression of a need epitomized in the paradox of Solon weeping for his dead son. "Why do you weep," asked a friend, "since...
Unitarianism is practically creedless. Its adherents usually believe in a single personality, God the Father, instead of a Trinitarian Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Over the objections of many Protestants and Catholics, Unitarians call themselves Christians because they believe in the divinity (but hot deity) and the teachings of a human Jesus Christ. Unitarianism made its appearance in the Christian world in the 16th Century, grew in the U. S. in the 18th Century, became a loosely organized faith in 1825. U. S. Unitarians are proud that Ellsworth Huntington, in The Character of Races, proved that in proportion to their...
...more respectable members of his fraternity. "Only the lowly understood him and praised him." A realist to the end, Cervantes penned his farewell in the last book he wrote, Persiles y Sigismunda: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. . . ." Though he was buried in a Trinitarian monastery at Madrid his grave is unmarked, unknown...
...scholars agree that the trinitarian references in the Bible are pious forgeries. The question of the divinity of Jesus is not worth a hill of beans. . . . We must scrap the Bible before we can attain church unity. It has no part in the 20th century civilization...