at speaking about the trinity expressed belief in one God who is not a solitary God but a communion in love marked by overflowing life. Another idea concerning the Trinity involved history. The Trinity allows the God-concept to enter into history. One can use the Trinity to span past, present, and future. The “Father” can be seen as the Old Testament, or “patriarchal foundations of Christianity, the “Son” or “Word” as the new foundation on which Christianity presently stands, and the “Spirit” as the ongoing dynamic that brings in the future. Two words have been used historically to speak about the Trinity. One is the Latin word, “persona”. God is three persons in one nature or substance. In Trinitarian theology, unlike today’s word, the “persons” are three different characterization of one dynamic actor. Thus there is one God who is being composed of 3 individuals, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all of whom share in the same substance or essence. The second word is the Greek word, “hypostasis". This points to the individual existence of a particular nature. The first refers to how the One God is known, as when we speak about God the creator redeemer, and sustainer. These words describe God’ work in the world. But this economic definition of a triune God fails to express the Trinitarian truth that there is one God existing in community. This is the view of the Trinity as immanent, the way in which God embodies the very nature of reality as relational or communal. As children of God we experience God’ love in many ways, and we believer that we are created in God’s image. Therefore, we need both “economic” and “immanent” understandings of the triune God. This is where women’s experience and the trinity come into to play with each other. In a one study it has shown that women, unlike men, fi...
