THE SELF-GIVING TRIUNE GOD, THE IMAGO DEI AND THE NATURE OF THE LOCAL CHURCH: AN ONTOLOGY OF MISSION

Abstract

For many years in Western society, the concept of a Holy Trinity has been one of those doctrines which we affirm to be Christian yet which for many has seemed largely irrelevant. German philosopher Immanuel Kant complained that, “Taken literally, absolutely nothing worthwhile for the prac­tical life can be made out of the doctrine of the Trinity.2