inspiral blog

This week we explored the idea of the Trinity. It’s a tricky day, Trinity Sunday, the only feast day that celebrates a doctrine (and a fairly complex and mysterious one at that). So we decided we’d re-run the Arian controversy to explore some of the ideas that surround it.

Team Arius argued that Jesus could not have been divine, and that the Trinity was therefore made up of a hierarchy of subordinates (Father, then Son, then Holy Spirit). Team Athanasius tried to argue for an equal, communal trinity.

Having thus butchered history and theology in one fell swoop, what we discovered is how difficult the Trinity is to argue for in any objective sense. It’s clearly about an experience of God, or a description of an experience, and thankfully one into which we’re all invited.