What is it about?
The Trinitarian Christian God is neither a monadic God who is abstract, distant, solitary, and aloof from humanity and the world nor three modes of existence of one God. Rather the Triune God is a three loving persons in communion, which incorporates humanity and the world. This gift of radical inclusion, which is initiated by the Father, executed by the Son and distributed by the Spirit, is given to us through the Lord's Supper .
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Why is it important?
The significance of the explicating community and Trinity cannot be overstressed because as a communion of persons, the Trinitarian persons are not a model community, which we must live up to it in the world, but rather a gift which correlates, critiques and recasts the African tradition of community, including the church and society.
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Writing this book was great fun for me as it has given me the privilege to describe and analyze the three systemic evils of the Big Man syndrome, patriarchy and ethno-religious nepotism, which destroy the African tradition of community, but also the church and society. Articulating a liberating doctrine of community and Trinity, I have argued for a non-hierarchal male and female relationships that eliminate patriarchy; retrieving the true Big Man/Woman ("newariga diksen--true Big Man is a garbage site"); reimagining Nigerian multi-ethnic, and religious diversity as a gift of God's economy of creation and formation of an emancipatory practice of theological education.
Dr Ibrahim Bitrus
Bronnum Lutheran Seminary
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This page is a summary of: Community and Trinity in Africa, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315283135.
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