Word: trinitarianisms
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...Father John Dunne of Notre Dame. "It's always in a form. Modern man loves myth as much as his ancestors. It's just that OUF own myths are not as easy to see." In the same way, it is too easy an answer to dismiss the Trinitarian formula as mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human psyche and to the fact that the answers given by the Nazarene rabbi who died on the Cross can still...
...Trinitarian Mystery. Midway between total faith and total rejection lies the intellectual agony of Christendom: the task of interpreting God's message to man in doctrine. Perhaps the only constant in dogmatic history is development, change and discovery. The original kerygma (proclamation) of Christ's apostles, as transmitted to his followers in an oral tradition of Jesus' teachings, had a pristine simplicity. As Paul put it in II Corinthians, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." But Paul himself, as much Greek as Jew, used a different and more powerful language to proclaim Christ than...
With Rome, Orthodoxy believes in both church tradition and Scripture as the source of revelation, the seven Christ-instituted sacraments, the Trinitarian doctrine formulated by the first seven ecumenical councils, the duty of reverence toward the Virgin Mary. Although Orthodoxy does not regard Mary's Immaculate Conception and Assumption as dogmas of faith, both beliefs seem to be widely held among the faithful. But Orthodoxy rejects papal infallibility and allows laymen a voice in the shaping of church policy. Before they are ordained, priests may marry, but to marry is to preclude advance, because bishops must be celibate...
...ministry, supped with his disciples sometime toward Passover, stood trial before Pilate and was crucified. Bultmann's disciples also reject, as a creation of the post-Easter church, any saying of Jesus that refers to his filial relation to God. The disciples unanimously regard the Trinitarian formulations of the early church as later, metaphysical interpretations of Christ's relationship to God, and not as anything claimed by Jesus himself...
...self-other split suggests various Oriental philosophies. In conjunction with James's discussion of mystical states, in fact, radical empiricism provides a good model for describing satori, the goal of Zen Buddhists. Partakers of mescaline, psilocybin, and other psychedelic drugs would do well to consult James. His trinitarian scheme reserves a prime position for pre-rational, "transcendental" experiences, yet he refrains from casting away either principles or reason...