Janet Soskice
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Oct 8, 2026
Melvyn BraggHOST
The doctrine also raises philosophical problems which have occupied some of the greatest religious thinkers of the last 2,000 years.
Melvyn BraggHOST
With me to discuss the Trinity are Janet Soskice, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College.
Melvyn BraggHOST
Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, and the Reverend Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Christ Church, the University of Oxford.
Melvyn BraggHOST
Janet Soskice, when did the idea of the Trinity emerge, and where did it come from?
Janet SoskiceGUEST
Well, I would say it's emergent from the earliest days.
Janet SoskiceGUEST
I mean, first of all, the doctrine of the Trinity is about what Christians think about God, and it's not-- and Jesus, of course.
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Graham WardGUEST
It's three persons.
Graham WardGUEST
Uh, d-- I mean, he goes back to the tradition in the Old Testament about the three angels coming to Abraham at Mamre, and he paints the three persons around a single round table, and all three are bending in towards each other, so announcing a kind of doctrine that the perichoresis or what came to be known as perichoresis.
Melvyn BraggHOST
The doctrine also raises philosophical problems which have occupied some of the greatest religious thinkers of the last 2,000 years.
Melvyn BraggHOST
With me to discuss the Trinity are Janet Soskice, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College, Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, and the Reverend Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Christchurch, University of Oxford.
Melvyn BraggHOST
Janet Soskice, when did the idea of the Trinity emerge, and where did it come from?
Janet SoskiceGUEST
Well, I would say it's emergent from the earliest days.
Janet SoskiceGUEST
I mean, first of all, the doctrine of the Trinity is about what Christians think about God, and it's not-- and Jesus, of course.
29 MINS LATER
Melvyn BraggHOST
And mathematics related to mysticism in something like Pythagoras, the three was the perfect number 'cause it had a beginning and a middle and an end.
Graham WardGUEST
Absolutely, and you still get people who are quite fascinated in trying to relate interfaith ways, how triads and threeness might actually relate across Christianity to, to other, other faiths entirely.
Melvyn BraggHOST
Janet Soskice, one thinker was the medieval theologian, Julian of Norwich, a curious-- Anyway, Julian of Norwich.