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"It is impossible to overemphasise the importance of the Christian doctrine that God is one in three persons. This has correctly been called the teaching distinctive of the Christian faith, that which sets the approach of Christians to the 'fearful mystery' of the deity apart from all other approaches."
Gerald S. Sloyan, The Three Persons in One God, 1964
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"The idea of the Trinity does not supersede monotheism; it interprets it, in the light of a specific set of revelatory events and experiences."
Keith Ward, Religion and Creation, 1996
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"[W]e should distinguish between the Trinity and the doctrine of the Trinity. God the Trinity may well be incomprehensible and ineffable. Yet doctrines of God, which are human statements in human language, are meant to be understood. Doctrines–even the doctrine of the Trinity–are supposed to make sense."
Tarmo Toom, Classical Trinitarian Theology
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"We must remind ourselves that Christian theology does not believe God to be a person. It believes Him to be such that in Him a trinity of persons is consistent with a unity of Deity."
C. S. Lewis, Christian Reflections
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“despite their orthodox confession of the Trinity, Christians are, in their practical life, almost mere ‘monotheists.’ We must be willing to admit that, should the doctrine of the Trinity have to be dropped as false, the major part of religious literature could well remain virtually unchanged.”
Karl Rahner, The Trinity
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The Christian concept of the Trinity stating that God exists as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is ‘difficult, sometimes offensive, to Muslims’ who believe in one and only God, according to Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
"The most difficult thing about the Trinity Doctrine is that there is no way to adequately explain it. The Trinity is a concept that is impossible for any human being to fully understand, let alone explain."
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