Catherine LaCugna by https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew en-us 2016-11-07 10:03:22 UTC 2023-01-25 03:26:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Catherine LaCugna dbell16 https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135707916 Catherine LaCugna (1952-1997) was an American Catholic theologian who died of cancer at the age of 44. She is famous for re-examining Christian understanding of the Trinity]]> 2016-11-07 10:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135707916 1. Catherine's view dbell16 https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135708326 Catherine claimed that for too long people had focused on the inner life and nature of the Godhead (the whole being of God, or all that God is).
For LaCugna, everything that can be known about God is based on God's self-revelation. It is only possible to experience and understand what God is through his actions in people's lives.]]> 2016-11-07 10:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135708326 dbell16 https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135709013 2016-11-07 10:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135709013 2. God is relational dbell16 https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135709162 Catherine thought that the whole action and being of God is relational. 

The Father begets the Son. This means that the Son comes from the Father. But the Son did not just suddenly come into being; he has always been a part of God, without beginning or end. 

This means that the Son is continually, eternally coming from God. This is known as eternal generation. 

The Holy Spirit is the bond that eternally unites the Father and the Son. This continual creative act flows outwards into the whole of creation. ]]> 2016-11-07 10:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135709162 3. Redemption dbell16 https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135709862 Christ came to earth to bring redemption: to bring people back to a relationship with the Father. 

The Holy Spirit completes the task of bringing the world into union with Christ. 

Christ brings all things back to the Father. The act of his incarnation and redemption shows how the Son, as love, comes out from God to save human beings. 

The Holy Spirit guides believers to complete the work of redemption. Once the task is fulfilled all things are brought back to God, so that God may be 'all in all'. ]]> 2016-11-07 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135709862 Key quote dbell16 https://padlet.com/dbell16/vi73uf4agtew/wish/135710426 The doctrine of the Trinity, which is the specifically Christian way of speaking about God, summarizes what it means to participate in the life of God through Jesus Christ in the Spirit. 

'The mystery of God is revealed in Christ and the Spirit as the mystery of love'

This means.... we understand who God is through looking at Jesus and the Holy Spirit tries to show how we should love

- Taken from: God for Us, The Trinity and Catholic Life
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