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[tree_and_leaf]

You know you've been doing too much theology when your reaction to this poem (as posted by angevin2 as part of her excellent Advent calendar) is to think, oh God, why is the Western church so crap at teaching the theology of the Trinity?

I think I've been doing too much theology. And I'm only a term in....

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[ineptshieldmaid]

THAT WAS MY THOUGHT TOO. But I shut it down because I *like* angsty things in which god is almost too human. :D

[gramina]

Well, for one thing, Western culture is not -- at the moment at least -- very communally-oriented. So I think we're culturally uncomfortable with the idea of a God who is not complete seen in isolation.

One of the things I like most about the doctrine of the Trinity is the unavoidability it brings to the idea that the Godhead is fundamentally relational -- that relatedness is key to what it is to be Whole.