The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

by Richard Rohr

Hardcover, 2016

Status

Available

Call number

231 ROH

Description

The Trinity is supposed to be the central doctrine grounding Christianity, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it's a mystery. But what if we breached that mystery? How might it transform our relationship with God? Although the word 'trinity' isn't found in the New Testament-it wasn't until the third century that it was coined-the idea of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was present in Jesus' life and teachings. In the pages of this book, internationally recognized teacher Richard Rohr circles around this paradoxical idea-and circling around is an apt metaphor: early Christians applied the Greek verb for dance to the mystery of the Trinity, saying whatever is going on in God is a flow-it's like a dance.

Media reviews

And my long—forgive me—review has one main point: it’s that The Divine Dance isn’t about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It’s a book about an alternative spirituality of Flow, committed to a metaphysic that refuses to recognize a distinction between God and the world. It’s one long
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looting of the language of Trinitarian theology, with an avowed goal of using that language to teach an entirely novel doctrine.
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Publication

Whitaker House (2016), 224 pages

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

9 inches
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