The Trinity

[Katherine438]

I’m reading a book called “In Silence With God” by Benedict Bauer.

I wish this were not happening, but it is … I am getting annoyed at the writer because he keeps expressing God the Father as God and Jesus as the Son of God … to the degree that he is not expressing that Jesus is also God … so it’s bothering me.

First of all, it shouldn’t be bothering me … because I know the reality of the Trinity.

Second, I have to ask am I getting this right … I’m 55 years old and for as long as I’ve known it there is the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit … nothing has changed, has it?

I think I ask that question in jest, simply because the author of this book I’m reading does not seem to talk in the way I am accustomed to reading … that Jesus is the Son of God, but that he is also God. Which is surprising me even more because the book was written in 1955 … a time when I do believe that the Holy Trinity was taught pretty thoroughly.

It is a great book … just not accustomed to consistently reading about Jesus as if he is “only” the Son of God and not God himself.

If I have anything wrong in my thinking, I would appreciate a correction … thank you kindly.

 

[Katherine438]

Didn’t mean to speak ill of this author … he apparently worked very hard to write a very spiritual book that has lasted generations.

 

[Katherine438]

Should have waited to read the entire book … actually a very good book and I would suggest it for reading to anyone that is looking for a deep level of spiritual reading … I think that was the issue with me … it was a bit too deep at points for me … but overall it was worth reading it, for I did gain a new insight into what it means to be in deep unity with God the Father and God the Son.

 

[Katherine438]

I found an answer in another thread that finally put this to rest for me … thank you to
Confiteor Deo … I thanked him in the thread also … I am so very humbled to be a part of this board and to be among such enlightened people.

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Default Re: The Eucharist and the Trinity
It seems that the priest was correct. At first I didn’t think so, but after reading some of the responses and looking it up in my Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma book, I found this:
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The Three Divine Persons are in One Another. (De fide.)
The Council of Florence, in the Decretum pro Jacobis (1441), declared with St. Fulgentius (De fide ad Petrum I, 4): Propter hanc unitatem Pater est totus in Filio, totus in Spiritu Sancto: Filius totus in Patre, totus in Spiritu Sancto: Spiritus Sanctus totus est in Patre, totus in Filio. (Because of this unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Ghost, the Son is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son). D 704. Christ testifies that the Father is in Him, and that He is in the Father. John 10, 30: “I and the Father are one.” 10, 38: “Believe the works that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.” Cf. John 14, 9 et seq.: 17, 21. The indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the Father and in the Son is indicated in I Cor. 2, 10 et seq.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

Hi Katherine,

I’m not generally familiar with Benedict Bauer, but just browsing his book on Google Books, p. 17, he writes:

“The stream of God’s life pours into the Word, the Son. ‘God of God, light of light, true God of true God.’ He becomes man, and the stream of God-life flows into the created world … This divine life Christ the God-man earned for us through His death on the cross. …”

This sounds orthodox to me. Looks like a good book, in fact.

 

[Katherine438]

Hi Katherine,

I’m not generally familiar with Benedict Bauer, but just browsing his book on Google Books, p. 17, he writes:

“The stream of God’s life pours into the Word, the Son. ‘God of God, light of light, true God of true God.’ He becomes man, and the stream of God-life flows into the created world … This divine life Christ the God-man earned for us through His death on the cross. …”

This sounds orthodox to me. Looks like a good book, in fact.

Actually it was a very good book … in some spots I found him to be less orthodox … but that is probably all on me. Overall this book is really worth reading.