"The ultimate principle of the world and of history is not a solitary being...but God the Family - God-Communion.  From all eternity, Yahweh is a bond of loving relations, an unfathomable Mystery - the unoriginated Origin of all - called "Father."  This Mother and Father emerges from the depths of divine mystery in an act of self-communication and self-revelation within the Godhead itself, and this emergence is the second person of God: "God the Son."  Now Parent and Child - "Father and Son" - join in an embrace of love and in so doing express and give origin to the Holy Spirit, who is the Oneness of the first and second persons.  This Trinity has not remained enclosed but has communicated itself, making human life its temple.  The Trinity dwells in our history, divinizing each of us" (Quoted in Stanley Grenz, Rediscovering the Triune God, p. 120).

Labels: Leonardo Boff, Relationality, Stanley Grenz, Trinity

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