Reviews for Like Father, Like Son: The Trinity Imaged in Our Humanity

The average rating for Like Father, Like Son: The Trinity Imaged in Our Humanity based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-27 00:00:00 Al Delarosa Smail, Tom. Like Father, Like Son: The Trinity Imaged in Our Humanity. Bucks, UK: 2005. From the Preface "This book is an attempt to discover what it might mean for our humanity that God is Trinity. . . . The renaissance of Trinitarian theology in the last fifty years, with its emphasis on the distinctiveness of the divine persons and the way they relate to one another, does, I believe, open the door to a genuinely fresh understanding of what it means to be human." (p. xi) From Chapter 3: "God's Image" "It is in the Son that God is presented to us in a human life, but through his Trinitarian perichoresis that human life images both the Father and the Spirit so that the specificities of their functions and their relationships come into focus. As we look at him we see not just him but the Father who has sent him and the Spirit who fills him, so that in him imago Dei is imago Trinitatis." (pp. 105-106) From chapter 5: "Triune Image" "For all the great gulf between Creator and his creatures, the basic structure of human life reflects the basic structure of the Trinitarian life of God. . . My proposal, however, is that we should move beyond such generalities to a much more specifically Trinitarian understanding of our humanity. We are in the image of God, not just because our personhood is dependent upon our Relationality, but because, by virtue of our creation by the triune God, we mirror the Father, we mirror the Son, and we mirror the Holy Spirit. To be authentically human means to reflect in our relationships, first, the specific relationship that the Father has with the Son; second, the specific relationship that the Son has with the Father; and third, the specific relationships that the Spirit has with the Father and the Son." (p. 153)

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-07 00:00:00 Thomas Sallah Food for thought. Interesting ideas. The other seems to believe there is a god, but also that the god creates via evolution. There are a lot of concepts such as time, reality, God's nature, theology, biology, big bang theory, and more topics covered. The book did not ultimately answer the question, "Is God real?" The case has been pressed, and the discussion is hot.