{"id":7,"date":"2006-06-20T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-06-20T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T16:11:24","slug":"linkage-trinity-updated-by-pcusa-mother-child-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-trinity-updated-by-pcusa-mother-child-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage: Trinity updated by PCUSA: Mother, Child, & Womb"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a hard time taking stuff like this<\/a> seriously. No doubt they think they’re striking a blow for women’s rights or status or both.<\/p>\n

But I will say this: isn’t God related to us more like an ideal human father, than like an ideal human mother? For one thing, we have a physical, bodily bond with our mothers. And isn’t it odd to address the now very much grown up Jesus as “Child”? And the Holy Spirit is a womb? What next, the Church a placenta? The Bible an umbilical cord? OK, I’ll stop.<\/p>\n

Seriously, though, this is an innovation of practice, not of theory. The issue of what the doctrine means is untouched by these new suggested titles. If one was a modalist, for example, before this, and one adopted the suggested changes of practice (speaking, imagining), one’s trinitarian theology would be essentially unchanged. The only change is that people in certain circles would consider you very sensitive and “with it”. And people in other, more conservative, circles would be… unimpressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a hard time taking stuff like this seriously. No doubt they think they’re striking a blow for women’s rights or status or both. But I will say this: isn’t God related to us more like an ideal human father, than like an ideal human mother? For one thing, we have a physical, bodily… Read More »Linkage: Trinity updated by PCUSA: Mother, Child, & Womb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}