Jesus as the glory of God, Do we need to rethink the Trinity, being a force for theological sanity in your Church
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Jesus as the glory of God, Do we need to rethink the Trinity, being a force for theological sanity in your Church

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 17, 202640 min

How does Jesus reveal the glory of God? Is the Trinity really the best way to understand Father, Son and Holy Spirit? And what should you do when you think your church is getting the Bible wrong? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird explore how the New Testament reveals God’s glory through Jesus and whether Christians need a better way of explaining the Trinity. Tom argues that rather than beginning with an abstract idea of God and trying to fit Jesus into it, we should look at Jesus to discover wha...

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Now Tom, I've got to ask you a difficult question. This may lead to some divided loyalties.

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Hello and welcome to this episode of Ask Anti-Right Anything, the program where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia and I'm of course joined by Tom Wright from Whitley Hall in Oxford, currently in the north of Scotland. Now Tom, I've got to ask you a difficult question. This may lead to some divided loyalties. If I wanted to encounter the glory of God, am I more likely to encounter it in Scotland or England?

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And if I want to enjoy the ambience of divine glory, the doxa, you know, the great experience of the Divine Majesty, am I more likely to find that in England or in Scotland? Are your loyalties too divided now to answer? No, I am thoroughly Scottish in my loyalties now, having lived in Scotland for 10 years

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and then now having our own house on the outer edge of Scotland. I think Maggie and I would both say there are parts of Scotland which are what my wife calls sort of hallelujah places or praise God from whom all blessings flow places. There are such places in England, of course, as well, but we have both thoroughly fallen

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