ABSTRACT
Protestants and Orthodox, unlike Catholics and Orthodox, have quite divergent views on the relationship between Scripture and Church. The Church Fathers, of course, employed multiple analogies in an attempt to get some grip on the Trinity. In the case of the Trinity, the divine nature has three forms: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The divine just is the various instantiations of love, or loving relationship, found in the universe – which is to take the New Testament statement that 'God is Love' in a quite literal way. Kevin Hart's view of Jesus as someone who himself does phenomenology in telling parables with the aim of getting his audience to see, in often strange and surprising ways, what it means to be in relationship with God. No amount of testimony about the resurrection of Jesus could ever satisfy a historical critic that it was a historical event, the crucial one for Christian faith.
