Holy Trinity, Perfect Community

Name: Holy Trinity, Perfect Community
Price: 18.00 USD
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ISBN: 9781570753329

By: Leonardo Boff, Phillip Berryman

Orbis Books / 2000 / Paperback

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In a series of short chapters the author unpacks the mysteries of the Trinity, spelling out the difference it makes to believe that God is communion rahter than solitude. Instead of an image of God as solitary ruler standing aloof above a static universe, belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is movement, there is an eternal process of life, of outward movement, and love.

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Title: Holy Trinity, Perfect Community
By: Leonardo Boff, Phillip Berryman
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 144
Vendor: Orbis Books
Publication Date: 2000

Dimensions: 8 1/4 X 5 1/4 X 0.00 (inches)
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 1570753326
ISBN-13: 9781570753329
Stock No: WW753326

Publisher's Description

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In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference to believe that God is communion rather than solitude. Instead of God as solitary ruler standing above a static universe, Christian belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is movement, an eternal process of life, outward movement, and love.

Boff shows how the Holy Trinity is, among other things, the image of the perfect community and the image of the church in its ideal form: not a hierarchy of power, but a community of diverse gifts and functions.

Ideal for study or personal reflection.

Author Bio

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Leonardo Boff spent more than thirty years as a Franciscan, including 22 years as a professor at the Franciscan Institute of Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since leaving the Franciscan order and the priesthood in 1992, he has served as professor of ethics at the University of Rio de Janeiro. He has written more than eighty books, including Jesus Christ Liberator, Christianity in a Nutshell, and Francis of Rome, Francis of Assisi (all available from Orbis).