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Testimonials to Experience of the Trinity is a study in spirituality of the Trinity. ‘Testimonial’ refers to an affirming witness to experience of the Trinity offered with the intention of encouraging such experience or openness to it. This approach through testimonials provides access to experiences of the Trinity and the varying forms they take. After an initial chapter on Jesus as Spirit-empowered son of Abba, the study presents 15 testimonials to experience of the Trinity. They represent four periods in the history of Christianity in its worldwide expansion and exemplify literary and artistic mediums through which testimonials have been offered. The study suggests that each testimonial and the experience it relates forms a trinitarian spirituality, indeed a discipleship spirituality, rooted in Jesus’ experience of God. The study will be of personal interest while contributing to research in areas such as spirituality, theology, religious studies, philosophical theology, and philosophy of religion.

Trinity --- Experience (Religion) --- Church history --- Religious experience --- Psychology, Religious --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Triads (Philosophy) --- Appropriation (Christian theology) --- God (Christianity) --- Godhead (Mormon theology) --- Holy Spirit --- Trinities --- Tritheism --- History of doctrines --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- 231.01 --- 225.08*01 --- 225.08*01 Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: God (Godsleer) --- Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: God (Godsleer) --- 231.01 Drieëenheid. Drievuldigheid --- Drieëenheid. Drievuldigheid

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In a renowned and controversial passage Origen writes: Of the subsistence of the Holy Spirit, no-one could have even a suspicion, except those who profess a belief in Christ (De Principiis, 1,3). But how come that ancient Christian authors elaborated a theology of the Holy Spirit? This innovative study tackles this question by analysing how the exegesis of the Gospel of John shaped the Trinitarian and soteriological agency of the Holy Spirit in the theologies of two of the most important Christian authors of all times: Origen and Augustine. In particular, the Johannine Father-Son-Spirit relation and the dichotomy between God and the world represent the foundation on which Origen and Augustine built their pneumatologies. At a closer look, one even realises that they both conceived the God-man relationship through a Johannine lens. The heuristic comparison proposed in this book is focused on the three large themes, towards which Origen and Augustine represent opposite approaches: the understanding of the immanent Trinity, the dualism between God and the world and the proper role of the Holy Spirit. On the one hand, Origen put forward a paradigm of participation to explain the oneness and Threeness of God. On the other, Augustine understands God's self-relation through a paradigm of identity. These two Trinitarian constructions are shaped by a different understanding of the Gospel of John: while Origen's theology mostly smooths the gospel's dualism by interpreting God's salvific act as a gradual spiritualisation of the world, Augustine tends to accentuate the Gospel's dichotomies by radicalising the Johannine dualism. This study will therefore clarify the two specific paradigms in the two authors' theologies: participation/transformation in Origen and identity/separation in Augustine, showing also how these paradigms are patterned after their different understanding of the fourth Gospel.

Trinity --- Holy Spirit --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Triads (Philosophy) --- Appropriation (Christian theology) --- God (Christianity) --- Godhead (Mormon theology) --- Trinities --- Tritheism --- History of doctrines --- Origen. --- Augustine, --- Augustine --- Augustinus, Aurelius --- Agostinho --- Augustine of Hippo --- Augustine d'Hippone --- Agostino d'Ippona --- Augustin d'Hippone --- Augustin, --- Augustinus Hipponensis, sanctus --- Augustinus, --- Sant'Agostino --- Augustinus van Hippo --- Aurelius Augustinus --- Aurelio Agostino --- 聖アウグスティヌス --- アウグスティヌス --- Avgustin, --- Augustinus, Aurelius, --- Augustyn, --- Ughasṭīnūs, --- Agostino, --- Agustí, --- Augoustinos, --- Aurelius Augustinus, --- Agustín, --- Aurelio Agostino, --- Episkopos Ippōnos Augoustinos, --- Augoustinos Ipponos, --- Agostinho, --- Ōgostinos, --- Agostino, Aurelio, --- אוגוסטינוס הקדוש --- أغسطينوس، --- 奥古斯丁 --- Adamantius, --- Oregenes Adamantius, --- Origene --- Origenes Adamantius, --- Origenes, --- Origenis --- Orygenes --- Ūrījānūs --- Bible. --- Jean (Book of the New Testament) --- Johanisi (Book of the New Testament) --- Johannesevangelium --- John (Book of the New Testament) --- Yohan pogŭm --- Yohane den (Book of the New Testament) --- Yūḥannā (Book of the New Testament) --- Ioganaĭ (Book of the New Testament) --- Иоганай (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History. --- 226.5 --- 276 =75 ORIGENES --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS:22 --- 231.01 --- 231.01 Drieëenheid. Drievuldigheid --- Drieëenheid. Drievuldigheid --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS:22 Latijnse patrologie-:-Bijbel--AUGUSTINUS --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS:22 Patrologie latine-:-La Bible. Ecriture sainte. Livres sacres--AUGUSTINUS --- Latijnse patrologie-:-Bijbel--AUGUSTINUS --- Patrologie latine-:-La Bible. Ecriture sainte. Livres sacres--AUGUSTINUS --- 276 =75 ORIGENES Griekse patrologie--ORIGENES --- 276 =75 ORIGENES Patrologie grecque--ORIGENES --- Griekse patrologie--ORIGENES --- Patrologie grecque--ORIGENES --- 226.5 Evangelie volgens Johannes --- 226.5 Evangile de S. Jean --- Evangelie volgens Johannes --- Evangile de S. Jean --- Origenes --- Augustinus Hipponensis --- Origène --- Bible --- History