Explaining the Trinity?
Attempts to do it, or to defend the doctrine as logical, often flounder in the mire of stretched analogies. In sharing our faith with Muslims, the objections to the doctrine come thick and fast. The BBC religion website introduces its history by saying ‘Christianity adopted this complicated idea of God because it was the only way they could make sense of One God in the context of the events and teaching of the Bible’.
Seeking to explain what this complicated idea means we might turn to illustrations involving shamrocks or the various states of H2O.
Comedy, free speech and warnings from the past
Hannah Arendt was a Jewish philosopher who grew up in Nazi Germany. Eventually she had to flee to France and, …