2. The shalom of the persons is the eschatological shalom of the people of God, which we are called to and long for, which we await (with all creation) and to which we summon our neighbors.
2a. The life of the church--in all its varied practices--tells and participates in the Father's sending of the Son and the Spirit for the sake of the world. Its community is an imago Dei; its spirituality no exercise in individualism, since God is a fellowship, not a monad.
2b. To state in anotehr way: the Great Commission is the sending of the Son over again, which itself is the eternal begetting of the Son but from history's point of view. This time, the church is invited.
3. The people of God whose head is Jesus of Nazareth are invited to participate by grace in the loving oneness of the persons. By grace, not by nature. The flesh of Jesus is forever scarred. This is the doctrine of theosis, the foundation of Christian anthropology. In the words of the early church fathers: He became like us so that we can become like him.
4. Christian spirituality is inside out: an always moving current into God and into the community. There is a holy and joyful eros to it as we, through the Son and by the Spirit, are collected up toward the Father and caught up into the perichoretic dance.
4a. Christian spirituality is therefore always triune from its foundations.
5. The Doctrine of the Trinity, revealed just in the light of awareness as we became no longer servants but friends, is a summing up of the whole. And, together with the two-natures of the Son, tells the whole thing in a glance.
6. Afterthought: Do not get overcome by how are there three in one. Sometimes you emphasize the oneness; sometimes the threeness. Heresy cannot be avoided. So, sin boldly!
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