Can I see Triads? Trinitas Vestigias(sp?)

Ivanhoe · #1 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 07:04 PM

Can one find evidence for the Trinity in nature?
I took the following from John Frame, The Doctrine of God, p.744.

God's oneness as unity, equality, and concord (Augustine).

ONTOLOGY
predicables, cases, and exemplifications

Instantiation, association, and classification;
particle, wave, field

Good, true, beautiful (interestingly enough, these are commonly listed as "transcendentals").

EPISTEMOLOGY
object, subject, and law (see DKG)
situational, normative, and existential perspectives
in logic: major premise, minor premise, conclusion
knowledge as justified, true belief.

ETHICS
Faith, hope, and love as virtues that abide
teleological, deontological, existential perspectives on ethics
goal, motive, standard

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Height, width, length (each constitutes all of space, yet they are distinct)
outside, inside, above
past, present, future
Matter, energy, and meaning (David Bohm believed that each of these replicates the other two. Each is a basic manifestation of reality)

The nine dimensions of some recent theories (a trinity of trinities)
The sun brings light, heat, and life.

THE HUMAN BODY
Mind, knowledge, love.
Memory, understanding, will
being, knowing, willing.

ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE
Tonic, tierce, quint
timbre, volume, harmony
beauty as integrity, proportion, and splendor

anyway, I got these from Frame

Dieter Schneider · #2 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Draught Horse

Can one find evidence for the Trinity in nature?
I took the following from John Frame, The Doctrine of God, p.744.

God's oneness as unity, equality, and concord (Augustine).

ONTOLOGY
predicables, cases, and exemplifications

Instantiation, association, and classification;
particle, wave, field

Good, true, beautiful (interestingly enough, these are commonly listed as "transcendentals").

EPISTEMOLOGY
object, subject, and law (see DKG)
situational, normative, and existential perspectives
in logic: major premise, minor premise, conclusion
knowledge as justified, true belief.

ETHICS
Faith, hope, and love as virtues that abide
teleological, deontological, existential perspectives on ethics
goal, motive, standard

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Height, width, length (each constitutes all of space, yet they are distinct)
outside, inside, above
past, present, future
Matter, energy, and meaning (David Bohm believed that each of these replicates the other two. Each is a basic manifestation of reality)

The nine dimensions of some recent theories (a trinity of trinities)
The sun brings light, heat, and life.

THE HUMAN BODY
Mind, knowledge, love.
Memory, understanding, will
being, knowing, willing.

ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE
Tonic, tierce, quint
timbre, volume, harmony
beauty as integrity, proportion, and splendor

anyway, I got these from Frame

Well - why did the NT writers never think of that? Pity my simplicity!

armourbearer · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 07:13 PM

In one of Prof. Frame's books he mentions his predisposition to tri-perspectivalism might have arisen from the fact that he grew up with three point sermons.

ChristianTrader · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 07:14 PM

http://www.communiquejournal.org/q4_random.html

Ivanhoe · #5 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dieter Schneider

Well - why did the NT writers never think of that? Pity my simplicity!

why didn't they use the word Trinity either?

polemic_turtle · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 12:16 AM

See the thread where Paul Manata finds fours all over nature and music history( Fab four, for example ); it's the one of the quadrinity. My feeling is that that sort of thing is just floating without any solid foundation, we know what to look for, so we make it fit, etc. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems very left-handed, weirdly creative to me.