A preview ne of the TFTD entries for the coming week, because it's appropriate too on Trinity Sunday. The tapestry, titled "Perichoresis", is the first theological abstract I ever attempted (2011). See the wise counsel of George Hunsinger below!
John14.26 “All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”
The Spirit is sent in the name of the Son. The triune love of God is expressed and expressly shared by the generous outgoing gift of the Holy Spirit. It is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to educate the Church in the truth of all that Jesus means as the gift of the Father’s love.
It is the Spirit who guides us in our reading of Scripture, deepens our understanding of our own hearts, and sends us into the world. The Spirit of Truth opens our eyes to interpret the culture we live in, empowers us to embody and speak the truth that in Jesus is the fuller life we crave, and who is the guiding luminous light we need, who tells us the God’s honest truth that sets us free.
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"God's cognitive availability through divine revelation allows us…to predicate descriptions of God that are true as far as we can make them, while God's irreducible ineffability nonetheless renders even our best predications profoundly inadequate."
George Hunsinger, 'Postliberal Theology' in Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology, ed. Vanhoozer, (Cambridge, 2003) p.47
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