02213cam a22002297i 4500020001500000020001800015041000800033082001700041100003400058245004100092260003300133300003500166505022900201520138300430650001301813650001201826650001301838650001201851942000701863952009601870999001701966  a0809149338  a9780809149339  aENG04a231.044bBUL1 aBullivant, Stephen Sebastian,14aThe Trinity :How not to be a heretic  aNewyorkbPaulist Pressc2014  ax, 121 pages :billustration ;0 aIntroduction: Supreme simplicity -- More than words -- Meet the Trinity -- Rereading the Old Testament -- God à la modes -- True God from true God -- Why not three Gods? -- Three what? -- Afterword: How to be an ecumenist.  aThe Trinity is Christianity's most basic description of who God actually is and who he needs to be in order to save us. It is at the very heart of what Christians believe, and very little else in Christianity makes sense without it. Despite this, a great many Christians, including significant numbers of teachers, catechists, and preachers, do not feel confident in talking about it. It is not that they don't believe in the Trinity, because they certainly do. But they are not altogether sure that what they think they believe about it is what they are;supposed to, and they fear both revealing their ignorance, and leading others astray. he central idea of this book is that, contrary to popular assumption, the Trinity is a very simple doctrine. It consists of just three short, deeply scriptural convictions: i) There is only one God; ii) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all God; and iii) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not the same. The Trinity: How Not to Be a Heretic explains how the earliest Christians came to be convinced by each statement, why they matter, and how slowly, over a period of several centuries it found a way of saying all three at once. Its sole purpose is to help Christians of all kinds better understand the Trinity so that they can then help others Christians, non-Christians, and maybe even some not-yet-Christians better understand it too.-- 0aTrinity. 0aTrinity 7aTrinity. 7aTrinity  cBK  00104070aHMIbHMIcGENd2018-11-02l0o231.044 BULp11003841r2026-01-16w2026-01-16yBK  c22479d22479