Mcgrath On The Doctrine Of The Trinity

McGrath begins by stating that at first he was an atheist who taught that Christians were deluded and the pinnacle of this absurdity was the doctrine of the trinity. He could not understand how God could be three people and one person at the same time. Through his studies McGrath began to explore his faith and after many years was finally able to make sense of the doctrine of the trinity. McGrath had feared that the doctrine of the Trinity would confuse him but instead it brought him an overwhelming sense of clarity. He came to the conclusion that in order for you to comprehend subjects of such spiritual depth you must expand your mind first. Greek philosophers spoke about education as psychogogia meaning an ‘enlargement of the soul.’ (McGrath: ,89) This statement related greatly to McGraths understanding of the doctrine of the trinity, he believed that when a concept is to big we scale it down to something …show more content…
McGrath also discusses people who have attempted to personalise God in the hope of better understanding for example giving God a gender but this is a functionalistic approach to the trinity that loses sight of the bureaucratic relationship that expresses God’s richness through three persons. The trinity is the bigger picture of God, McGrath uses the analogy of the trinity as an iceberg where part of it is underwater, not visible to people but still very necessary to its existence. McGrath taught of the trinity as a conclusion to a long process of reflection ‘once you grasp it, it holds everything together.’(McGrath: ,101) Whereas other argued that it is the foundation of faith and when correctly positioned everything else will fall into place. McGrath concludes by saying that whatever your thinking of the trinity is valuable because by exploring the concept of the doctrine of trinity you are able to explore the depth of your faith and thus in time in rich