{"id":8834,"date":"2020-07-30T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:40:39","slug":"notes-on-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8834","title":{"rendered":"NOTES ON THE TRINITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A few years back, I listened to theologian Miroslav Volf&#8217;s talk at Wheaton.\u00a0 Many things struck\/troubled me, but here are a few:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*It seems his theology has collapsed into ethics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*I would love to hear his exegesis of John 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*He says rightly that Muslims reject a conception of the trinity that is not the one of orthodox Christianity.\u00a0 He says the reason Muslims have done this is because most Christians can&#8217;t articulate the orthodox doctrine of the trinity.\u00a0 That is also correct in a way, but Volf makes no mention that Muhammad was reacting to the worship of many tribal deities not the trinity.\u00a0 I found this amazing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I listened to theologian Miroslav Volf&#8217;s talk at Wheaton.\u00a0 Many things struck\/troubled me, but here are a few: *It seems his theology has collapsed into ethics. *I would love to hear his exegesis of John 8. *He says rightly that Muslims reject a conception of the trinity that is not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","category-trinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8835,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}