Wtf is this shit? I should have made my research before ordering this. I thought this was an orthodox book on the trinity.
>“until William Paul Young wrote his worldwide bestselling novel, The Shack, in the past decade. For the first time since fourth-century Cappadocia, the Trinity actually became an inspired subject of conversation and rather pleasant questioning in homes and restaurants. And it continues!” So our dates are AD 381 to 2007, and the hero is Young (who returns the compliment in a fulsome foreword). That’s a lot of dust to dust off a daring doctrine!
Already in the introduction I know this book is going to be absolute garbage, but let's see what this californian friar has to say about the trinity
>For the sake of our minds, it’s helpful to identify three persons, but even the three names are largely ‘placeholders,’ and a thousand beautiful names for God can be interchanged with each of them.” What is the all-important thing? “The all-important thing is to get the energy and quality of the relationship between these Three—that’s the essential mystery that transforms us.”
>But you know what I believe? I think the spaces in between the members of the Trinity are unmistakably feminine. The forms or manifestations strike me as the masculine dimension, and the diffused, intuitive, mysterious, and wonderful unconscious in-between, that’s the feminine. And that’s where the essential power is—the space between the persons more than the persons individually.
Of course…
>Some mystics who were on real journeys of prayer took this message to its consistent conclusion: creation is thus “the fourth person of the Blessed Trinity”!
Why do they keep getting away with this shit? This guy is an actual franciscan monk (I know) and teacher of catholicism. Anyway, what's the best book for an orthodox understanding of the Holy Trinity from the Fathers?