Thursday, November 30, 2023

Difference Between the Catholic "Trinity" and the "Triune Godhead"

Whom shall he teach knowledge?
and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?

Isaiah 28:9

The Trinitarian View of the Triune Godhead is that there are 3 distinct persons who act in unison as one.
This, I believe. to be the correct Trinitarian View.

The Trinitarian View of the Catholic Church's Trinity is proceeding from each other in a sort of chain, or a spiritual ambilocal chord.

Let a Catholic website explain below the convoluted version of their Trinity:
"And the Council of Florence, AD 1338-1445, can help us in this
regard.
The Council’s definitions concerning the Trinity are really as easy as one, two, three… four. It taught there is one nature in God, and that there are two processions, three persons, and four relations that constitute the Blessed Trinity
.
The Son “proceeds” from the Father,
and the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son.”

These are the two processions in God. And these are foundational to the four relations that constitute the three persons in God. These are those four eternal relations in God:
The Father actively and eternally generates the Son, constituting the person of God, the Father.
The Son is passively generated of the Father, which constitutes the person of the Son.
The Father and the Son actively spirate the Holy Spirit in the one relation within the inner life of God that does not constitute a person. It does not do so because the Father and Son are already constituted as persons in relation to each other in the first two relations. This is why CCC 240 teaches, “[The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity] is Son only in relation to his Father.”
The Holy Spirit is passively spirated of the Father and the Son, constituting the person of the Holy Spirit.
We should take note of the distinction between the “generative” procession that constitutes the Son, and the “spirative” procession that constitutes the Holy Spirit." 
CatholicAnswersMagazine

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