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1tri•une \ˈtrī-ˌyün\ noun

often capitalized [Latin tri- + unus one—more at ONE] 1605: TRINITY 1

2triune adjective

1632: three in one:

a: of or relating to the Trinity 〈the triune God〉

b: consisting of three parts, members, or aspects

A man begets a child, but he only makes a statue.

God begets Christ but He only makes men.

■ verb (begets, begetting; past begot; past participle begotten) archaic or literary

1 produce (a child).

2 bring about; cause.

make

■ verb (makes, making, made)

1 form by putting parts together or combining substances.

▶ (make something into) alter something so that it forms (something else).

▶ arrange bedclothes tidily on (a bed) ready for use.

▶ Electronics complete or close (a circuit).

To beget is to become the father of: to create is to make.

And the difference is this.

When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself.

A man begets human babies, a beaver begets little beavers and a bird begets eggs which turn into little birds.

But when you make, you make something of a different kind from yourself.

A bird makes a nest, a beaver builds a dam, a man makes a wireless set—or he may make something more like himself than a wireless set: say, a statue.

When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself.

A man begets human babies, a beaver begets little beavers and a bird begets eggs which turn into little birds.

But when you make, you make something of a different kind from yourself.

Eastgate Hotel - Oxford, England

“I never expected to have in my sixties what passed me by in my twenties.”

At this point, Lewis had met and married (Civically & Religiously) Joy who was in remission from cancer.

What about Mystical aspects (The Holy Trinity) of Theology?

Can we be expected to believe that “Three is One”?

God In Three Persons.

The Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

If you are using only one dimension, you could draw only a straight line.

If you are using two, you could draw a figure: say, a square.

And a square is made up of four straight lines.

Now a step further.

If you have three dimensions, you can then build what we call a solid body: say, a cube—a thing like a dice or a lump of sugar.

And a cube is made up of six squares.

Do you see the point?

A world of one dimension would be a straight line.

In a two-dimensional world, you still get straight lines, but many lines make one figure.

In a three-dimensional world, you still get figures but many figures p 162 make one solid body.

In other words, as you advance to more real and more complicated levels, you do not leave behind you the things you found on the simpler levels: you still have them, but combined in new ways—in ways you could not imagine if you knew only the simpler levels.

The thing that matters is being actually p 163 drawn into that three-personal life, and that may begin any time—tonight, if you like.

God is the thing to which he is praying—the goal he is trying to reach.

God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on—the motive power.

God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal.

So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.

The man is being caught up into the higher kinds of life—what I called Zoe or spiritual life: he is being pulled into God, by God, while still remaining himself.

The Notion of Radical Love.

Theology - The Science of God.

Joseph Pearce, Director of the Center for Faith and Culture, Aquinas College, Nashville, TN.

Modern life is a desert, a wasteland, wilderness, … where it is easy to get lost.

Theology is a Map.

God’s Map (Practical Core), the way to Him.

The way (Practical Core) to Him through “the dessert” life.

Theologians provide details of the way to God.

Wesleyan Quadrilateral.

Mystical Aspects of Theology.

Three In One.

Three Persons in One. - Possible?

A cube has six faces (surfaces.)

Space itself is a Trinity (Height, Width & Depth).

The oneness of Space is a Trinity.

Space is “smudged” with a trinity.

Creation is God’s work.

God (A Trinity Himself) is Three in One.

Why wouldn’t this characteristic be smudged throughout His Creation.

The Unity of Space cannot be comprehended without the concept of a Trinity.

Time is a Trinity (Past, Present & Future.).

The oneness of Time is a Trinity.

Love is a Trinity (Lover, Beloved & Relationship).

The oneness of Love is a Trinity.

God is Love.

Lover, Beloved, Relationship.

If God were “flat” (One-dimensional) he would be dead.

There must be dynamism among the elements.

Reason is a Trinity (Good, True & Beautiful).The oneness of Reason is a Trinity.

This doctrine describes the rule of God over his creation as king, including how the rule is exerted and structured and what its ultimate purpose is.

Faith and Reason go together (Quadrilateral).

Subject (Me).

Object (Something beyond me (“Other”).

Their Relationship with each other (Making Sense of Subject - Our understanding.).

SOLA GRATIA

A Latin phrase meaning “grace alone” that expresses the Reformation* doctrine that salvation* is all of divine grace at every stage, from election* to glorification.*

Inherent in this phrase is the truth that no merit* of man either before, at, or after his regeneration* by the Holy Spirit* contributes to his salvation.

The only merit by which a sinner is saved is Christ’s merit.

Thus, sola gratia is usually employed in conjunction with solo Christo, “in or by Christ alone,” to denote that it is solely in Christ and by virtue of His atoning work that men receive the saving grace of God.

See Sola Fide; Soli Deo Gloria; Solo Christo.

RATIONALISM

From the Latin ratio, “reason,” the philosophy that elevates human reason as the sufficient, supreme, and final arbiter in every realm of human experience.

Pure rationalism was the idea that reason alone, with no help from the experience of the senses, was the source of all knowledge.

Empirical rationalism made use of the senses to produce its data and set up the scientific method as the source of knowledge—i.e., knowledge is gained only by investigation and verification.

In both cases, human reason is still the only source of knowledge.

Cairns, A. (2002).

In Dictionary of Theological Terms (p.

422).

Belfast; Greenville, SC: Ambassador Emerald International.

Latin words for reason include ratio, causa, causam,, caussa and rationis.

Beauty is a Trinity.