Christians claim that the deepest mystery of life is found in God, and that the identity of God is Trinitarian. God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How can we understand this mystery, and what difference does it make for our lives? Following Aquinas, we can say that the mystery of the Trinity helps us understand something of ourselves and our world, since we are made in the image of God, and that image is Trinitarian. The deepest foundation of the world is personal, and indeed, it pertains to personal communion. This way of thinking about reality offers us a helpful contemporary alternative to visions of reality that ignore or deny personhood (beings endowed with intelligence, love, freedom) as something central to the meaning of life.
This lecture was originally broadcast live on March 9, 2022 as part of the 2021-2022 Angelicum Professors Series. To find out more about the series, please visit our website: angelicum.it/thomistic-instit...