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We have been reflecting on the nature and context of community in our 'Sacred Space' this month, asking what it means to be a faith community in our present context. Last night's conversation steered towards reflections on our understandings of the Trinity and its implications for community. Rublev's icon of the Trinity was an item of focus and food for thought. Rublev clearly places Father Son and Spirit in equal position in the icon, in contradistinction to our often unstated assumptions of hierarchy in the godhead.
When it comes to viewing community in the light of this, we are invited to see community as a relationship of equals. The Russian icon also suggests that there is room for a fourth: the community of faith, as completion of the picture, which prompted us to reflect on Jesus' affirmation of us as 'brothers' - more than friends.
It seems that our capacity to regard and welcome others as equals is fundamental to our sense of community, and a challenge to us in practice, much more so than in theory.
Posted by gary at May 9, 2005 10:35 AM
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