Trinitarian Theology of Prayer And Healing

Trinitarian Theology of Prayer and Healing

There has been considerable reflection more recently on the nature of Trinity and its place in church life and theological thinking Feminists , liberationists , process thinkers , and more traditionalist Catholic and Protestant theologians as well as Eastern Orthodox desire to free the Trinity from its isolation in traditional statements with the consequent lack of relation to practical Christian faith and life The realization that in the economy of salvation we have to do with God as he is in himself has radically focused thought in a new

way on the being and act of God as triune . The double context of salvation and liberation in relation to the Trinity has been the prime reason for renewed interest in the doctrine today and in its practical implications . Recent rejuvenation of the Trinity has owed much to the efforts and success of theologians in laying out a wide range of trinitarian implications . It is as we properly understand God as triune that we win have a right view of the faith , of its doctrines , and of the relevance of all this for every sphere of human life and activity . It is in many ways remarkable that this insight , always latent in our traditions , has now , almost suddenly and unexpectedly , emerged as a central aspect of current theology . Current thinking is very varied here the work will concentrate on that which relates directly a trinitarian basis and the implication for our understanding of the nature and goal of healing . Before we go on to do this in some detail in the work , we must say something about the Trinity itself as the general framework for understanding religious diversity . After discussing that general framework , we will indicate some of its implications for Christianity 's internal life

Trinity means the reality of one God who is three persons . There are not three Gods somehow joined together , which would be explicit tritheism nor can one envisage the three persons as together making up the Deity This would reduce the persons ' to partial gods and mean that the Trinity was some kind of mathematical conundrum . Nor can the unity in Trinity be seen as simply a variety of attributes or perfections which constitute the being of God . Rather , the Trinity affirms that while each person is wholly divine both per se and in relation to the others , there is only one God . God 's being is a unity in Trinity and not otherwise This naturally excludes the view that one can begin with a different conception of unity to which the Trinity must in some measure conform It also indicates that the being of God as one can only be known as mystery in the actions of his grace and salvation in Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit or , to put it otherwise , in revelation and reconciliation But if God is the one God as the Father sending the Son by the Holy Spirit , how do these three persons or ways of...