Social Trinity is an interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the trinity. Its central idea is that the trinity consists of three persons whose unity consists of a loving relationship. This teaching is especially associated by modern theologians (Karl Rahner, Jürgen Moltmann, and others with various emphases and distinctives), with the Cappadocian Fathers, who can be said to have developed it both positively and negatively.
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- Social Trinity is an interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the trinity. Its central idea is that the trinity consists of three persons whose unity consists of a loving relationship. This teaching is especially associated by modern theologians (Karl Rahner, Jürgen Moltmann, and others with various emphases and distinctives), with the Cappadocian Fathers, who can be said to have developed it both positively and negatively. The Fathers explain the Trinity as three individualities in one indivisible being, while at the same time emphatically asserting that Christian community is an analogy, or as the Eastern Orthodox typically say, "an icon", of God's love, and a mutual participation in an ethical life that is comparable to God, but only analogous to God's being. The newer theologians may stress, controversially, "Being as communion", as a mode of relation found in God's very subsistence to which human relations can and ought to be conformed. Positively, the traditional teaching emphasizes that God is an inherently social being.. Human unity approaches conformity to the image of God's unity through self-giving, empathy, adoration for one another, etc.. Such love is a fitting ethical likeness to God - but is in stark contrast to God's unity of being. Negatively, the orthodox conception refutes the adoptionism which some attribute to the Anomoeans and other anti-trinitarians, which reduce the conception of the unity of God with Christ to a purely ethical concept, strictly comparable to a human relationship between two (or three) individuals. In contrast, the basis for human relationship pointed to by the Cappadocian Fathers (as they are interpreted by advocates of the social trinity) is within God as such, not in God in relation to another that is not God.
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- Social Trinity is an interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the trinity. Its central idea is that the trinity consists of three persons whose unity consists of a loving relationship. This teaching is especially associated by modern theologians (Karl Rahner, Jürgen Moltmann, and others with various emphases and distinctives), with the Cappadocian Fathers, who can be said to have developed it both positively and negatively.
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