Triunity, creation and aesthetic rationality

Abstract

"The Trinitarian formulation of Nicaea serves to identify the self-offering of Jesus Christ and the delight the Father takes in him with the very being of God. It is in the light of this identification that we understand St. John’s assertion that “God is love” as properly a claim about God, that is, a claim first about how God is in himself, and only secondarily—and at an analogical distance—a claim about how God is for us. Even so, the second claim is the basis of the first. It is only because of Christ that we can say God is Trinity, but it is because God is Trinity that we can say that it is God who so loved the world in Christ, because God is love before the foundation of the world"