A Personal Trinitarian Statement
*Trinitarian Statement Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and John of Damascus were among those who urged church councils to adopt a set of beliefs regarding God, Christology, and the Holy Spirit. They would present their beliefs in concise, summary form. These figures are representatives of the systematic thrust of Nicene trinitarian theology in relation to other aspects of Christian faith. I thought I would put my mind to the same task. Such a contemporary appropriation of the meaning of trinitarian doctrine is to admit to the unavoidable “fusion of horizons” that attends every act of interpretation. Christian theology builds upon the ambiguous human experience of the divine, the sense that our finite and temporal lives connect to something much larger, and we are accountable for the lives we lead. The Trinity is the way Christians identify God. This doctrine seeks a glimpse into the inner life of God, even though God is beyond our compr...