1st Sunday after Trinity
WHEN Philip Pullman wrote the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, he imagined every human being as having a “daemon”, a spirit-self. In doing so, he provided one way of looking at “demons” (the spelling varies, but the same…
Tag: Trinity
The Trinity is theological and political
THERE is a slight but possibly significant difference in the way in which Western and Eastern Christians understand the Trinity. The version of the Nicene Creed familiar to most of us in the West says that the Holy Spirit…
Trinity Sunday
I BEGAN by wishing that the NRSV, AV, RSV, and NIV were all correct. The promise is so familiar: that, when he comes, the Spirit “will guide you into all the truth”. The New Jerusalem Bible steps cautiously away from the…
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