Holy Trinity, Perfect Community - Softcover

Boff, Leonardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570753326 ISBN 13: 9781570753329

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2000

Synopsis

In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference to believe that God is communion rather than solitude. Instead of God as solitary ruler standing above a static universe, Christian belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is movement, an eternal process of life, outward movement, and love. Boff shows how the Holy Trinity is, among other things, the image of the perfect community and the image of the church in its ideal form: not a hierarchy of power, but a community of diverse gifts and functions. Ideal for study or personal reflection.

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About the Author

Leonardo Boff spent more than thirty years as a Franciscan, including 22 years as a professor at the Franciscan Institute of Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since leaving the Franciscan order and the priesthood in 1992, he has served as professor of ethics at the University of Rio de Janeiro. He has written more than eighty books, including Jesus Christ Liberator, Christianity in a Nutshell, and Francis of Rome, Francis of Assisi (all available from Orbis).

From the Back Cover

In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference to believe that God is communion rather than solitude.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570753326
• ISBN 13: 9781570753329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144