Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life. Don Schweitzer
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The Immanent Trinity
The centrality of God’s goodness in the preaching and practice of Jesus suggests that it be taken as the primary divine attribute. This goodness, God’s agape or self-giving love, is also beautiful, so that one can speak of God’s goodness and beauty together. Following Bonaventure one can take the self-diffusive goodness of God as a key to understanding God’s Trinitarian being. Intrinsic to God’s goodness and beauty is a disposition, an energy and tendency, to further communicate itself. This disposition is fulfilled in the life of the immanent Trinity. It is actualized eternally through the free and creative assent of the first “person”41 of the Trinity.42 This assent is also key to understanding the Trinity. The self-diffusive energy of the divine goodness and beauty connects with a corresponding eros in the divine will for its further expression. This eros is not simply desire for something lacking, but also a productive will arising from joyful ecstasy in the divine goodness.43 At this point this eros is partly a desire for something lacking, for the self-diffusive nature of the divine goodness would not be fulfilled if it did not find eternal expression in the immanent Trinity. This rejoicing in divine goodness, assent to its further expression, and the actualization of it are characteristic of the divine life.
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