I recently read Ralph Smith’s Trinity and Reality. I found it an excellent book, worthy of careful attention. Smith explains how the Trinity, God as one and three, illuminates how we think about all of life. He spends a lot of time showing how other theistic religions, such as Judaism and Islam, are bankrupt because their god is not a Trinity. I am going to pull out some of my favorite quotes and post them in the coming weeks. I encourage you to buy the book and digest it. Here is the first quote:
“For some, it is offensive to think that the Christian faith has at its very center a mystery [the Trinity], an incomprehensible truth. To them, Christians seem to be calling for a sacrifice of the intellect on the altar of religious confession. In reality, trinitarian faith demands something quite different. It is not a sacrifice of the intellect, but the sacrifice of the pretense of intellectual autonomy: the notion that the mind or reason of man is the ultimate judge of truth. “
(Smith, Trinity and Reality p. 7)
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