THE 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gordon D. Kaufman, Agnosticism, Immanence

• School: St. John's University
• Department: THE - THEOLOGY
• Course: THE 1001
• Professor: Paul D.Molnar

Document Summary

Immanent trinity refers to god in se, or god in himself. This doctrine of the immanent trinity states that god and the trinity would still exist for all eternity even if he had never created the world. Purpose of the immanent trinity: to recognize, respect, and uphold god"s freedom and independence from humanity. Economic trinity refers to god ad extra, or god acting outside himself as creator, reconciler, and. It is through the way god revealed himself to us in the economic trinity that we can learn about the immanent trinity. The widely accepted belief from theologians is that we can know god by grace and faith and by the way he has revealed himself to humanity through the economic trinity. However, some theologians do not believe in the separation of the economic and immanent trinity, and of these theologians are .