Trinity Sunday; 12 June 2022; Trinity Sunday C (RCL); Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15.
It seems like the designers of the lectionary might have found passages that seemed more directly to refer to the persons of the Trinity — some of the blessings in Paul’s letters seem to come close to a doctrine of the Trinity. Perhaps we used all those up in Years A and B, and this is all that’s left for Year C. In any event, the doctrine itself isn’t explicit in the New Testament, and was only settled after centuries of reflection on the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, and took its shape from the doctrine of the Incarnation.
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