ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 14 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> I've been struck by the fact that we are placing such a strong emphasis on Christ. Not that I'm suggesting that it is inappropriate. But it does make me wonder about the other persons of the Trinity. What is the relation of Christology to the doctrine of the Trinity? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: One of the questions that we'll always have to face as we study theology is perhaps we should give equal attention to all persons of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And then there's the other problem, which I think is so typical in the American situation, that they look upon God simply as the Father. So if you go to a civic event, prayers are offered to God and to the Father but never to Jesus. We cannot approach the other persons of the Trinity apart from the person of Jesus. The other day sitting in chapel was St. Phillips Day -- St. Phillip and St. James. And the preacher didn't show up. And as I heard the scriptures read for that day, a student was conducting the liturgy, they had the question of Phillip to Jesus: Show us the Father. And Jesus said, "He who has seen me has seen the Father." And it dawned on me as I was listening to the scriptures read that this is really the basic problem. Phillip did not realize that the entrance into the question about God and the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Holy Spirit, is not through those individuals directly but through Jesus. Because in Jesus is the Father himself. Jesus says that he was in the Father and that the Father is in him. Whenever we approach God, first through the Father and then through the Holy Spirit, we are not going to completely or fully understand what it means that God is Trinity. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***