Trinitarian Community in Literature and the Classroom
David Urban, Assistant Professor of English
Minds in the Making

In recent years I have thought a great deal about the idea of community in the Christian life.  My thoughts on community have been radically affected by two foundational Christian doctrines: That humanity is created in God’s image (Heidelberg Catechism 6 Q) and that God himself is and always was Trinitarian in nature (Athanasian Creed; Heidelberg Catechism 25 Q.; Belgic Confession, Articles 8 & 9). Clearly God himself is and always was in eternal community, and it strikes me that for us as people made in God’s image to be actively conforming ourselves all the more to the image of God as revealed to us in Christ, we must recognize that we have been created for community, and we must actively seek to emulate the divine community that God is.

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