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<\/span>John Franke<\/a>, in his new and exciting book Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth (Living Theology)<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0687491959\")
\u00a0addresses the topic of truth.\u00a0\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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No one speaks entirely for the emerging conversation, but many speak against the emerging conversation as if it can be narrowed to one point of view. This is why it is important for critics to read what John Franke says about truth, ultimate Truth:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u201cSimply for me\u2026 Truth \u2026 is a person, Jesus Christ\u201d (43). Thus, \u201cKnowing truth and participating in truth depend \u2026 on being properly related to this one person who is <\/i>divine truth\u201d (44). But, there\u2019s more: Jesus is not alone the truth, he is the Truth in relation to the Father. And he is Truth in relation to the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit. Here John is working with John 14 and John 15. Truth, then, is bound up with and identical to the persons of the Trinity (45). God, for the Christian, is the Triune God.\n
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But some, Franke observes, say the Trinity is not used as a term in the Bible, so Franke observes this in response: \u201ctheological teaching which the early Christians understood as defending the central faith convictions of the Bible and the church\u201d (47). It was a \u201cnonnegotiable of the gospel\u201d (47).<\/div>\n
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Trinitarian thinking preserves the monotheism of the Old Testament and the unmistakable belief of the exalted status of Jesus Christ and the Spirit. The challenge of connecting these two beliefs \u2014 God\u2019s oneness and the deity of Christ and the Spirit \u2014 led to the Trinity as the only way to make sense of the Christian God.<\/div>\n
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John tells a story of a conversation with students who knew one had to believe in the Trinity but could neither define it nor show its impact on daily living. John thinks Trinity matters deeply:<\/div>\n
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God is as God acts, and God\u2019s acts are love. The eternal Trinitarian relationship is one of love. That inner love is a unity-in-plurality and a plurality-in-love. In this (perichoretic) relationship, we learn two things about God \u2014 who is Truth:<\/div>\n
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1. God is Social: three persons in one, one in three.<\/div>\n
2. God is missional: the Father \u201csends\u201d love to the Son and the Son \u201csends\u201d love to the Spirit\u201d and the Spirit \u201csends\u201d and \u2026 each is missionally related to the other. As one Being, Three Persons. But there\u2019s more: the missional God sends his love to the created world in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. God creates as an extension of love and he redeems in that same love.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manifold Witness 5<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Franke, in his new and exciting book Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth (Living Theology) addresses the topic of truth. 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