[11]Moreover, the Trinity does not provide a model for human relationships. This is because human relationships are transformed in Christ and incorporated into the life of the triune God.
[12]What exactly is God? It’s argued that God’s essence is unknowable. But how far is this idea conceptually similar to the idea of Platonic forms and Kant’s noumena? Each of these things posits a reality that underlies the world of particulars, so how far is the divine essence simply the positing of a reality that underlies the three divine persons?
Although the Trinity does not provide a direct model I believe that it can be a classic example of leadership/authority not being hierarchical.
ReplyDeleteBy which I mean that headship or leadership doesn't have to follow a model of domination or aggressive leadership as the fact that Holy Spirit's role is to honour Jesus does not mean he has a diminutive role. There is a form of leadership in the Trinity but an equality of parts. Of course this is gross oversimmplification but anything other than gross oversimplification when dealing with the Trinity is virtually impossible.