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                                                                                                                On the Trinity

In at least some of my previous reflections on the relation between economic and immanent trinity, I have argued, in effect, that God as the ground and object of faith is the God of the economic trinity, even as God as the eminent subject and object of love is the God of the immanent trinity (cf., e.g., "On the Meaning of 'Ground' and 'Object''': 3). But this, clearly, is not well expressed, especially if it is true that the distinction between economic and immanent trinity is not the same as, or does not simply parallel, the distinction between the meaning of God for us and the structure of God in itself.

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