Trinitarian monotheism

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Trinitarian monotheism is the name given to the Christian faith, which represents the only God ( monotheism ) in three persons ( Trinity ) at the same time : God the Father, the Son of God Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit . One deity is equated with YHWH . Deuteronomy 6.4 ( Deut. 6.4  LUT ) is used as an Old Testament reference to the one God in three persons. Unity and trinity are considered to be of the same origin .

Individual ways of thinking

For Paul Tillich , trinitarian monotheism was a “concrete monotheism”, the “affirmation of the living God” , an “attempt to speak of the living God, the God in whom the unconditional and the concrete are united.” Therefore, it is not about them Number three as a quantitative, but a purely qualitative symbolization of God. Even Walter Kasper , Karl Rahner , Wolfhart Pannenberg talk about the Trinitarian monotheism Christian faith as a concrete monotheism as opposed to the abstract monotheism as a philosophical statement of a single metaphysical rationale. H. Richard Niebuhr, in turn, presented it as "radical monotheism".

literature

  • Jürgen Werbick : Trinitarian monotheism. The Christians' image of God in the context of the monotheistic religions. In: Reinhard Göllner (ed.): The struggle for God. Images of God in the field of tension between subjective belief and religious tradition. Lit, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1237-9 , pp. 117ff. ( Theology in Contact 15).
  • Georg Wobbermin : Luther's Trinitarian Monotheism. In: Journal for Theology and Church. 36 = NF 9, 4, 1928, pp. 237-252.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, 1987, p. 265
  2. ↑ Christoph Schwöbel, Monotheismus, in: Theologische Realenzyklopädie: Study Edition, 2000, Part II, pp. 258, 261

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