Our catechetical series continues, drawn now from the second section of the book, I am His : Learning from the Prayer Book Catechism, All that a Christian ought to Know and Believe to his Soul’s Health
Question. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief?
Answer. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me, and all the world. Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind.
Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the [elect[1]] people of God.
The One and the Three
It is one of the most astonishing discoveries of modern natural science that every elementary particle of matter exhibits the properties of particles, but also of waves – simultaneously. As Einstein said, “we have two contradictory pictures of reality: separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do”[2]. Early Christians had a not dissimilar problem. On the one hand, they inherited from the prophets of Israel and retained a deep conviction that God is One Lord alone to be loved, worshipped, and served (Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 13). The “many gods” of the Gentiles were in fact nothing more