It took Christian thinker hundreds of years to develop what we think of now as a systematic theology of the Trinity. I just finished reading a book on it and I’m no wiser now, actually, than I was when I began the book. But it was quite interesting and it’s still developing in my mind. This particular book was talking about contemporary issues in the light of the Trinity. What light does this idea of God as a community of love, a Trinity. What light has it shed on some of our contemporary problems and issues and controversies? Like the gender issues, for example. The author was a woman theologian who was describing the Trinity as a symbol of “genderlessness.” There is no gender in the Trinity, although we have to use some language, so we’ve ended up using patriarchal language. Father and Son. Spirit is usually seen as feminine but that isn’t really important. The important thing is that the experience of the Trinity is beyond duality. Even the duality of male and female.
(Homily 26 May 2024 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
