Doctrine In The Church

Doctrine In The Church

Introduction

The role of religion in the life of people cannot be denied as people mostly practice different religions as part of their faith. Before analyzing the concept of Christina theology, it is important to build a proper understanding of Christianity that will further help to explore the dynamic nature of Christian theology. In fact, religion is generally described as a multidimensional phenomenon that consists on ideology, cognition and emotions. Theology, on the other hand, can be seen as an inborn inclination towards experiential side of religion.

Christian theology, in this regard, is based on twofold realistic concern: in its analytical attempt Christian theology tries to reconstruct ideas to translate them into action, and in its formative attempt it tries to give way to experiences in line with the freedom of the religious doctrine. Christian theology is the refection of life of god and beliefs and believers of Christianity are recognized as Christians who are followers of Jesus.. In addition, theology is devoted to reflexion on religion, life and faith; moreover, it is a passionate intellectual participation and engagement in life. It is also a fact that engagement with religion is interwoven with culture and everyday-life, as religion also encounters with reality.

Discussion

No doubt, Christians believe that God is a Trinity and many would agree that the Trinity Doctrine is a major doctrine of Christianity that laid the basis for the Christian belief. The Trinitarian approach revolves around the concept of God, because according to the New World version of the Bible in John 1:1 reads as follows:

"In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God and the Word was a god."

Figure-1: Trinitarian Doctrine

Source: Bracken and Suchoki, 1997

The development of the doctrine of Trinity is associated with the New Testament that produces evidence of the divinity of Christ, e.g. Phil. 2:6, Hebrews. 1:1-10. During the 1st and 2nd ecumenical councils, Cappadocia father determined the completeness of theological doctrine. In addition, the early Greek authors including Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen, launched a decisive explanation for the internal connection between a single entity (substance), and three persons (hypostases) of God. The characteristics of each element of the trinity were described as follows: Father - unborn Person, the Son - born eternally Person, the Holy Spirit - coming from the Father of Personality.

The most important thing to understand is that, despite this functional division, all the Persons of the Trinity have one nature. It is a fact that, in 215 AD, Tertullian was the first to establish this doctrine using the term, Trinidad. Not surprisingly, many attempts to make the doctrine of the Trinity more intelligible (eg, light with different properties or water in different states) suffered a fiasco. Meanwhile, Trinity is supra-mental, but not unreasonable, since the logic denies only in relation to the existence and nature of a transcendent God. Only a man being “image of God” can remotely indicate the trinity of the Creator, possessing natural ...