In this passage, The Russian thinker,Fedorov called the Trinity Question 5 options: The Passage is below this question    an absurd teaching    high theology reserved for scholars    a mystery    a social program

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In this passage, The Russian thinker,Fedorov called the Trinity

Question 5 options: The Passage is below this question

 
 an absurd teaching
 
 high theology reserved for scholars
 
 a mystery
 
 a social program

141 Timothy Ware, 'God in Trinity' from

The Orthodox Church (London: Penguin

Books, 1963), pp. 216-18.

Our social programme, said the Russian

thinker Fedorov, is the dogma of the Trinity.

Orthodoxy believes most passionately that the

doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not a piece of

'high theology' reserved for the professional

scholar, but something that has a living, practical

importance for every Christian. Man, so

the Bible teaches, is made in the image of God,

and to Christians God means the Trinity: thus

it is only in the light of the dogma of the Trinity

that man can understand who he is and what

God intends him to be. Our private lives, our

personal relations, and all our plans of forming

a Christian society depend upon a right theology

of the Trinity. 'Between the Trinity and

Hell there lies no other choice: As an Anglican

writer has put it: 'In this doctrine is summed

up the new way of thinking about God, in the

power of which the fishermen went out to convert

the Greco-Roman world. It marks a saving

revolution in human thought

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Step 1: Introducing the historical context:

Christianity is a religion founded a little over 2,000 years ago. Since then, it has gone on to impact the world in many different ways, and is presently the most followed religion in the world. The concept of the Trinity is central to Christianity. It refers to the oneness of God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. 

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