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Philip Ryken and Michael LeFebvre end their Our Triune God: Living in the Love of the Three-in-One <\/a> $\"\"$ with a chapter on \u201cthe Joyous Trinity.\u201d They close the book with this: <\/p>\n

\u201cEric Masall insisted that the Trinity is never merely a doctrine but always meant to be a grateful joy. To say that God is triune, he wrote, is to say that \u2018there are three divine persons eternally united in one life of complete perfection and beatitude.\u2019 This tri-union \u2018is the secret of God\u2019s most infinite life and being, into which, in his infinite love and generosity, he has admitted us, and is therefore to be accepted with amazed and exultant gratitude\u2019\u201d (114). <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"