Opposing a 3 year transition to compliance for native logging to delay any changes to environmental laws is counter-productive. It will mean more logging for even more time.

#auspol #insiders

The simple binary between project approvals and environmental protection is a very unhelpful contribution to the current policy discussion. +

We don't explain away the Trinity within broader doctrinal apparatus. The cross is factum. Mere fact. It simply is. It may be the only thing that is: the dehumanisation of God that is our salvation. The dehumanisation of God is empirical, that this might be turned to our salvation is the miracle.

In truth the crucifixion is the whole of the Trinity acting in concert. "The judge judged in our place." The Father is the Son, the Spirit is the power of the Father in the Son. The cross is the cypher for the Trinity, not the other way around.

This is part of the other legitimate critique that social trinitarianism lapses easily into tri-theism. On this account the cross is a three actor drama: the father doing to the son by the Spirit.

It then makes the cross subservient to our speculative account of God. And so interprets the cross as mere sign of the deeper truth of the Trinity. The opposite must be true! The Trinity is the sign of the deeper truth of the Cross!

Because axiomatic to the doctrine of the Trinity is: "what we must say about God if Jesus of Nazareth is Christ the Word." Social trinitarianism anchors our understanding of God in a speculative community, and not in the cross.

Setting aside the fact that the economic / immanent distinction isn't ultimately helpful in the first place. The Trinity ought to be anchored in the saving work of Christ: if the crucifixion is a "problem" in light of our doctrine of the Trinity, then our doctrine is wrong.

Because the crucifixion is a rupture of the perfect community — the Father enacts cosmic child abuse. This becomes an essentially necessary interpretation if we accept social trinitarianism.

Also struck by yet more reasons social trinitarianism is not just wrong, but also bad. In setting up the immanent Trinity as a perfect community (and let's not kid ourselves the immanent Trinity is the "real" Trinity — just as the Father is "God God"), the crucifixion becomes impossible.

Also enjoying the jabs at Celtic Christianity. I'm always here for that pile on. (Less so the boogeyman approach to Gnosticism... alas.)

Maybe we need to talk ...

Where is the converting theology?

What's the new and interruptive word?

Maybe that's a bit bleak for a Thursday morning.

There are these conversations about mission and public theology bubbling away across my church. They're fine, so far as they go. But they feel like the last gasps of Christendom. Trying to hold onto platforms to preach to the converted.

I'm in the doldrums a bit with my theology of late. I just haven't found anything that's particularly interesting or expansive.

Partly it's because I don't have space to really think at the moment, or even read — my brain is just dead at the moment.