{"id":17215,"date":"2018-09-11T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17215"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:55:29","slug":"eastern-christianity-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17215","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Christianity; Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Rohr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eastern Christianity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Trinity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday, September 11, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3zARVp3420I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nJust as some Eastern fathers saw Christ\u2019s human\/divine nature as one dynamic unity, they also saw the Trinity as an Infinite Dynamic Flow. The Western Church tended to have a more static view of both Christ and the Trinity\u2014more a mathematical conundrum than an invitation to new consciousness. In our attempts to explain the Trinitarian mystery, the Western Church overemphasized the individual names\u2014Father, Son, and Holy Spirit\u2014but not so much the quality of the relationships between them, which is where all the power and meaning lies! So, let\u2019s not spend too much time arguing about the gender of the Three. The real and essential point is how the three \u201cpersons\u201d relate to one another: infinite outpouring and infinite receiving.<br \/>\nThe Mystery of God as Trinity invites us into full participation with God\u2014a flow, a relationship, a waterwheel of always outpouring love. God is a verb much more than a noun. Some Christian mystics taught that all of creation is being taken back into this flow of eternal life, almost as if we are a \u201cFourth Person\u201d of the Trinity, or as Jesus put it, \u201cso that where I am you also may be\u201d (John 14:3).<br \/>\nThe Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century first developed this theology, though they readily admitted the Trinity is a wonderful mystery that can never fully be understood with the rational mind, but can only be known through love, prayer, and suffering. Contemplation of God as Trinity was made-to-order to undercut the dualistic mind. This view of Trinity invites us to interactively experience God as transpersonal (\u201cFather\u201d), personal (\u201cChrist\u201d), and even impersonal (\u201cHoly Spirit\u201d)\u2014all at once.<br \/>\nThe Cappadocian teaching moved to the West but was not broadly communicated. We find an active Trinitarianism in many Catholic mystics (e.g., Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, John of the Cross, Teresa of \u00c1vila). Scottish theologian Richard of St. Victor (1110\u20131173) reflected this early theology. He taught at great length that for God to be truth, God had to be one; for God to be love, God had to be two; and for God to be joy, God had to be three! [1]<br \/>\nTrue Trinitarian theology offers the soul endless creativity\u2014an open horizon. Trinitarian thinkers do not seem to have much interest in things like hell, punishment, or any notion of earning or losing. They are only overwhelmed by infinite abundance and flow.<br \/>\nOur supposed logic has to break down before we can comprehend the nature of the universe and the bare beginnings of the nature of God. Paraphrasing physicist Niels Bohr, the doctrine of the Trinity is saying that God is not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we can think. Perhaps much of the weakness of many Christian doctrines and dogmas is that we\u2019ve tried to understand them with a logical or rational mind instead of through love, prayer, and participation itself. In the end, only lovers seem to know what is going on inside of God. To all others, God remains an impossible and distant secret, just like the galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling <\/span><\/p>\n<p>REJOICE IN ME ALWAYS! No matter what is going on, you can rejoice in your Love-relationship with Me. This is the secret of being content in all circumstances. So many people dream of the day when they will finally be happy: when they are out of debt, when their children are out of trouble, when they have more leisure time, and so on. While they daydream, their moments are trickling into the ground like precious balm spilling wastefully from overturned bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasizing about future happiness will never bring fulfillment because fantasy is unreality. Even though I am invisible, I am far more Real than the world you see around you. My reality is eternal and unchanging. Bring your moments to Me, and I will fill them with vibrant Joy. Now is the time to rejoice in My Presence!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILIPPIANS 4: 4, 12; Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PSALM 102: 27;\u00a0But you remain the same, and your years will never end. The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 1 PETER 1: 8;\u00a0Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morning and Evening Devotional (Jesus Calling\u00ae) (Kindle Locations 6259-6262). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr Eastern Christianity Trinity Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Just as some Eastern fathers saw Christ\u2019s human\/divine nature as one dynamic unity, they also saw the Trinity as an Infinite Dynamic Flow. 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