Who Is the Trinity? What Jesus Reveals About the Heart of God
What if everything you thought you knew about God, obedience, and love was missing the most important piece? Dr. Andrew Kaethler unpacks why the Trinity isn't a theological puzzle to be solved — it's a Person to be encountered.
In this lecture from Catholic Pacific College's CPC3 series, theologian Dr. Andrew Kaethler guides us through one of the most profound and underappreciated mysteries of the Christian faith: that the Trinity is not merely a doctrine about God's inner life — it is the very key to understanding all of reality.
Drawing from Sacred Scripture, the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, and the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, Dr. Kaethler shows how Jesus Christ is the logos — the reason, order, and meaning woven into the fabric of creation. To know Christ is not merely to know about God; it is to encounter God. And that encounter, he argues, transforms us into what we were always meant to be: sons and daughters of a personal, humble, non-competitive God who is pure gift.
Topics explored include:
— Why the Trinity is first and foremost a Christological mystery
— What obedience and love have to do with each other (and why modernity gets both wrong)
— How the Annunciation, Nativity, and Crucifixion each reveal the same Trinitarian pattern of kenosis — self-emptying love
— Why the Eucharist is "the world in a wafer"
— How theosis — becoming partakers of divine life — is the heart of Catholic formation
This is Catholic intellectual tradition at its best: rigorous, accessible, and alive with wonder.
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