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                                                                                                   On the Trinity

Consider what is involved in the situation of our coming to know, so as to trust and to love, another person.

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Why isn't this an adequate analogy for the trinity? God the Father is God as the mysterious other with whom we have to do "in, with, and under" whatever else we have to do with. God the Son is God as the intelligible meaning of the mysterious other for us, and hence the object (more exactly, the ultimate object) of our trust in and love for that mysterious other. Finally, God the Holy Spirit is God as the worth or power of the mysterious other, which is itself the ground (more exactly, the ultimate ground) of the same trust and love. We trust in and love God because of God, because God both discloses Godself to us and calls forth our trust and love.

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