I'm not sure that I can fill this all in satisfactorily, David. I'm not
sure that I can. The classical understanding of the Trinity is full of
subtleties and intricacies that I don't usually find very helpful. I agree
that God is manifest to us in three Persons, but I focus myself much more on
God in Christ--ie, the Incarnation, and I also see this heavily in terms of
the prologue to John's gospel, which I take as both the most profound
statement of the Incarnation and as the most important statement of the
doctrine of creation in all of scripture: the maker of heaven and earth,
according to this passage, is none other than the Incarnate Word, later
identified by the church as the second person of the Trinity. I believe,
myself, that the Creator was crucified in this sense. That's what I'm
driving at in some of my other comments. I believe that is precisely what
"John" (the author of that gospel, who might have been John or might have
been Lazarus or might have been someone else) was saying, and I find that
enormously helpful for understanding both theodicy and the kind of cosmos in
which we live.
Ted
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