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God For Us: The Trinity and Christian Life, by Catherine Mowry LaCugna. Harper reprint, 1993.
I don't know why it took me so long to pick up this book, published more than two decades ago, but it has proven to be revelatory. Catherine Mowry LaCugna provides us with a thoughtful and provocative exposition of the Trinitarian faith, showing that the immanent Trinity (God in God's self) cannot be known except through God's economy of salvation. She demonstrates with great
coherence that we know God's being (ousia) in God's persons as Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Because we know God in terms of persons, who are in relationship, our faith should be relational -- and egalitarian.
This provides historical and theological accounting, but ends with an important chapter on living in the Trinity, for we know God as Trinity in God's work of salvation in Christ through the Holy Spirit.
Take and read!
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Paperback, Hardcover
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Podcasts on Christian Spirituality and Theology
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Most recent: Dealing with Distractions in Prayer. 11 min.
This is a new Internet ministry outreach that will be expanding in the months ahead.
Use link for direct access. Also available via phone and tablet apps: Podbean, Spotify, Google Play Music, and Apple Podcasts. Do search for Awaken, Philip St. Romain, or combine in search.
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St. Irenaeus: June 28. 130 - 202.
He was a student, well trained no doubt, with great patience in investigating, tremendously protective of apostolic teaching, but prompted more by a desire to win over his opponents than to prove them in error.
As bishop of Lyons he was especially concerned with the Gnostics, who took their name from the Greek word for “knowledge.” Claiming access to secret knowledge imparted by Jesus to only a few disciples, their teaching was attracting and confusing many Christians. After thoroughly investigating the various Gnostic sects and their “secret,” Irenaeus
showed to what logical conclusions their tenets led. These he contrasted with the teaching of the apostles and the text of Holy Scripture, giving us, in five books, a system of theology of great importance to subsequent times. Moreover, his work, widely used and translated into Latin and Armenian, gradually ended the influence of the Gnostics.
The circumstances and details about his death, like those of his birth and early life in Asia Minor, are not at all clear.
Calendar of Saints
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