Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday. The following quotes are from John Burnaby's (BFr 1905) The Belief of Christendom (London 1959).
To acknowledge with the creed that our Lord is of one substance with the Father, is to acknowledged that what God gave in the giving of His Son was himself - and that nothing less than God's giving of Himself could bring into this world of change, sin and death, the power of His own endless life.
The Spirit does not suppress or replace the individuality of the man in whom His presence is shown. His power is active in the measure in which the chosen individual responds to His promptings. Only in the Elect One who appears in the fullness of time, only in Jesus, is the Spirit present "without measure", because the response is full and absolute. In this one Man, God and man through the Spirit are completely one.
The doctrine of the Trinity is no superfluous piece of theologizing, but an expression of what is most fundamental in the revelation of God in Christ. If love means a personal relationship, and if love is the very being of God, we cannot think of God as existing in unrelated loneliness, realizing Himself only in His acts of creation and redemption. The glory of the Love of God is a glory that belongs to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
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