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The Trinity Untangled: Making Sense Of A Sensible Doctrine
One of the central doctrines of Christianity is also one of the most confusing, what G.K. Chesterton called “a tangled Trinity.” How can there really be one God if the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are truly divine? Because this doctrine is often considered too difficult to contemplate, it becomes the Achilles’ heel of Christian theology and a target for false religions to attack. In The Trinity Untangled Kenneth Myers offers a sensible, biblical, and historic understanding of the Trinity. Eye-opening, engaging and easy to read, this book replaces confusion with clarity, engaging the reader’s mind while drawing the heart to a deeper worship of the Lord.
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171 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 8, 2014
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January 15, 2015
A book on the Trinity? Why would someone read a book on the Trinity? If you are ready to understand God a bit better, read this book. If you have ever struggled in your understanding or explanation of the Trinity, read this book. If you enjoy going a little deeper in your walk with God, read this book. If the faith that was given to us by our forefathers is precious to you, read this book.
I have been told, “the Trinity is a mystery,” and it is. But something so foundational to the faith should be something we can all understand, explain and discuss. There was no book in the Bible called, “The Trinity Examined.” But there are many things in the Bible that were revealed by Christ, that were not fully explained in the cannon of scripture. That is where the book, “The Trinity Untangled,” comes in. It is the latest theological work by Bishop Kenneth Myers, director of Graceworks Teaching Ministry.
So what should you expect if you read this work? Should you expect theological terms? Yes, the terms are there and well explained in accessible terms. The harder part of this book might be finding your own errors in understanding God within the book’s pages and examples. I remember being a young Christian thinking that at the last day I will see God, and He will be seated in a great gold throne. And at His right hand will be Jesus Christ, His only Son. And flying between them all, like a dove will be the Holy Ghost. Well, that is Tritheism and it is an error, a mistake in the way I used to think of God. But, imagine my embarrassment when Bp. Myers calls me out on it.
The hardest part of “The Trinity Untangled’ is not the terms, or the fact that it swims in theological waters. The hard part of this book is to be willing to love God enough to understand Him better. As you read, you may need humility. As you read, you may need to reconsider ideas you have developed for yourself or ideas based on what someone has told you. But if you will take the journey this book offers, you will see the face of God, in His Son, Jesus Christ. Martin Luther in his Christmas Sermon of 1527 said, “…I know of no God but this one in the manger."
C.S. Lewis once wrote, “…For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hands.”
I have heard it said that once you go beyond, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” in your discussion about the Trinity, you are just a few perilous steps from heresy. Talk about a ‘tough bit of theology…’ And in my younger days, I have heard the Trinity discussed in a wide varieties of ways, none of them clarifying anything and often leaving more questions than answers. Bp. Myers has done the hard work and presents the results in a very accessible and understanding way.
The best part of reading a ‘Bp. Myers Book’ is that it’s like sitting with him and listening to him talk. He writes like he talks, just like he teaches. As you read, you really do hear his voice. He is easy to follow, he explains things clearly, with both humor and a great affection for God. In the end, the man’s heart comes through and that is a heart all for God.
Like all the other works by Bp. Myers, this one is worth every moment you read it and every moment you think about what is being shown. And in the end, it is good to make sense of a sensible doctrine. I highly recommend this book.
Quick disclosure – I am an ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church of North America and I have known Bishop Myers for some 12 years. He has been my teacher and mentor in that time and I have heard him teach at retreats several times. But what I have discussed here stand on the merit of the work he has written.
(Ref - C.S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books, “God in the Dock – Essays on Theology and Ethics”)
I have been told, “the Trinity is a mystery,” and it is. But something so foundational to the faith should be something we can all understand, explain and discuss. There was no book in the Bible called, “The Trinity Examined.” But there are many things in the Bible that were revealed by Christ, that were not fully explained in the cannon of scripture. That is where the book, “The Trinity Untangled,” comes in. It is the latest theological work by Bishop Kenneth Myers, director of Graceworks Teaching Ministry.
So what should you expect if you read this work? Should you expect theological terms? Yes, the terms are there and well explained in accessible terms. The harder part of this book might be finding your own errors in understanding God within the book’s pages and examples. I remember being a young Christian thinking that at the last day I will see God, and He will be seated in a great gold throne. And at His right hand will be Jesus Christ, His only Son. And flying between them all, like a dove will be the Holy Ghost. Well, that is Tritheism and it is an error, a mistake in the way I used to think of God. But, imagine my embarrassment when Bp. Myers calls me out on it.
The hardest part of “The Trinity Untangled’ is not the terms, or the fact that it swims in theological waters. The hard part of this book is to be willing to love God enough to understand Him better. As you read, you may need humility. As you read, you may need to reconsider ideas you have developed for yourself or ideas based on what someone has told you. But if you will take the journey this book offers, you will see the face of God, in His Son, Jesus Christ. Martin Luther in his Christmas Sermon of 1527 said, “…I know of no God but this one in the manger."
C.S. Lewis once wrote, “…For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hands.”
I have heard it said that once you go beyond, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” in your discussion about the Trinity, you are just a few perilous steps from heresy. Talk about a ‘tough bit of theology…’ And in my younger days, I have heard the Trinity discussed in a wide varieties of ways, none of them clarifying anything and often leaving more questions than answers. Bp. Myers has done the hard work and presents the results in a very accessible and understanding way.
The best part of reading a ‘Bp. Myers Book’ is that it’s like sitting with him and listening to him talk. He writes like he talks, just like he teaches. As you read, you really do hear his voice. He is easy to follow, he explains things clearly, with both humor and a great affection for God. In the end, the man’s heart comes through and that is a heart all for God.
Like all the other works by Bp. Myers, this one is worth every moment you read it and every moment you think about what is being shown. And in the end, it is good to make sense of a sensible doctrine. I highly recommend this book.
Quick disclosure – I am an ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church of North America and I have known Bishop Myers for some 12 years. He has been my teacher and mentor in that time and I have heard him teach at retreats several times. But what I have discussed here stand on the merit of the work he has written.
(Ref - C.S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books, “God in the Dock – Essays on Theology and Ethics”)
February 1, 2016
An approachable book which does a solid job "fleshing out" the Trinity.
April 15, 2016
Reading this book is like sitting down with the author over a cup of coffee and having a complex doctrine explained in a meaningful way. I will continue to read Kenneth Myers books.
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