By Schubert Ogden
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If the Christian religion is precisely that – -- a religion – -- it is hardly surprising that Christian faith in God, while radically monotheistic, is at one and the same time trinitarian. Given the claim of radically monotheistic faith itself – -- as expressed in the dictum, Impossibile est, sine deo, discere deum – -- the one and only God is and must be present and active at every point of the threefold structure constitutive of the Christian religion and thus on both sides of its two correlations. Hence the economic trinity: the Father being God as the implicit primal ontic source; the Sonbeing God as present and active in the explicit primal ontic source; and the Holy Spirit being God as present and active in the explicit primal noetic source. And the immanent trinity as well: the Father being the primal unity of God as both universal subject and universal object of love; the Son being God in God's primal difference as universal object of love; and the Holy Spirit being God in God's primal difference as universal subject of love.
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