The Trinity and the Christian life : issues of integration and orientation

• Main Author: Hartwig, Paul Bruce
• Other Authors: Van Niekerk, Rassie
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Trinity; Trinitarian theology; Revelation of the trinity; the Father; the Son; the Holy Spirit; the Christian life; Experience of God; Synoptics; Pauline letters; Johannine letters; 231.044; God; Jesus Christ > Divinity; Holy Spirit
• Online Access: Hartwig, Paul Bruce (1997) The Trinity and the Christian life : issues of integration and orientation, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16913>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16913

This thesis is an attempt to relate the Scriptural revelation of God's nature to the normal Christian life. It analyses the experiential factors that originally gave rise to a triune awareness of God, arguing that a contemporary recovery of those seminal events is requisite for an integration of the trinity into the Christian life. After a theological summation of the biblical revelation, the thesis then explores the nature of the orientation of the trinity within the Christian life. This orientation is brought about by observing the harmonious arrangement of the different Persons within the Godhead. Once this is done we can then ensure that this arrangement finds an echo and corresponding imprint within the Christian life. As the Christian consistently integrates that tripartite relationship into the Christian life, the doctrine of the trinity will be a continual source of sustenance and direction for life and godliness. === Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology === Th. M. (Systematic Theology)