TRINITY AS AN ALL-EMBRACING REALITY

A Study Based on Raimon Panikkar’s Understanding of Trinity

Abstract

Trinity as an All-embracing Reality is an attempt to present Raimon Panikkar’s Trinitarian understanding. The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is seen as an underlying structure of all reality. Panikkar develops his thought on the Trinity based on his cosmotheandric vision of reality. He claims that the threefold pattern Theos-anthroposcosmos are invariants of all religions and cultures. The divine, the human and the earthly are the three irreducible dimensions which constitute any reality in as much as it is real. Therefore reality is radically relational and interdependent. On this vision Panikkar develops his hermeneutics which he applies to mythos, faith and logos.