What is the Trinity? The Trinity is the Christian way to understand the one God who is creator, redeemer, and sanctifier. Simple, right? Nope. Get ready for some Daedalian complexity. We’ve just ...

The doctrine of the Trinity has a long history of development beyond the scope of this article. Its final form was produced in response to a controversy that threatened to engulf the church. Just what ...

Two Karls are responsible for the recent revolution in Trinity thinking: Karl Barth and Karl Rahner. Rahner’s Rule speaks for both Karls. What is Rahner’s Rule? Before we get to Rahner’s Rule, let’s ...

The doctrine of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the ...

The Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith. But how much do we know about this mystery? What is its history? What does it mean? And how can it be ...

Photo by Sharon Santema, courtesy of Unsplash. In the second week of his 30-day Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius Loyola proposes that the retreatant imagine the Trinity gazing down upon all of humanity.

Although the word Trinity isn’t found in Scripture, it’s essential for Christians to believe in it, especially at Christmas. Dismissing the Trinity takes away the reason we celebrate the birth of ...

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the “central mystery of [our] faith” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 234). It is therefore the most fundamental. If we get it wrong, then everything else gets ...

Since space is a trinity, time is a trinity, and the good-true-and-beautiful is a trinity, we see that God’s Creation is marked indelibly with his Trinitarian fingerprints. As Christians throughout ...