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The Weight of the World Singing Sorrow (and Hope)

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This post on the Trinity is intrinsically related to ecology (only if readers reject platonic dualisms which separate humans from nature). This post, however, broadens the dialogue a little. "The Liberating power of God the World's future begins in divine relatedness that is coming to articulation in the doctrine of the Trinity ." God: "The ineffable God cannot tolerate human oppression and suffering and thus leave (so to speak) the realm of ineffability to become one force among others working toward redemption and reconciliation." Jesus : "God enters the struggle as a concrete identity, Jesus the Son. As a concrete identity the Son can be distinguished conceptually from the ineffable source out of which the Son derived. This give the ineffable an identity it would not otherwise have had, namely a face or persona of the Father ( sic )." Holy Spirit: "In addition, the Spirit of conviction working within us is the identifiable divine persona that o...