What is it about?
Because people are created in the image of God and so share some basic qualities with God, an understanding of the Trinity can help us to do culture interpretation, especially in the fundamental distinction between individualistic cultures and those that are more communal in nature.
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Why is it important?
Such an understanding can inform our discipleship by recognizing that as individuals (and by extension communities) grow in Christlike maturity, they will shift toward a healthy balance of individualism and community-orientation..
Perspectives
In the deluge of writings about the Trinity in recent decades, very few have traced the influence that a trinitarian balance of three-individuals-in-community has upon people as they are created in God's image and as that image has been marred in the Genesis fall and is being re-created in relationship with Jesus Christ.
Dr. John Sherwood
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This page is a summary of: The trinitarian dance with culture: Trinity as the missiological optic for understanding culture, Missiology An International Review, January 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0091829619887386.
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