{"id":27016,"date":"2012-06-03T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/cant-be-called-a-theist-if-you\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:40:39","slug":"cant-be-called-a-theist-if-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/cant-be-called-a-theist-if-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t be called a Theist if you don&#8217;t believe in a Personal God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/trinity%20MASTER%20of%20the%20Votive%20Picture%20of%20Sankt%20Lambrech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trinity MASTER of the Votive Picture of Sankt Lambrech.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/06\/trinity MASTER of the Votive Picture of Sankt Lambrech-thumb-285x333-11805.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"333\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">No one is to be called a Theist, <u>who does not believe in a Personal God<\/u>, whatever difficulty there may be in defining the word &#8220;Personal.&#8221; Now it is the belief of Catholics about the Supreme Being, that this essential characteristic of His Nature is reiterated in three distinct ways or modes; so that the Almighty God, instead of <u>being One Person only<\/u>, which is the teaching of Natural Religion, has <u>Three Personalities<\/u>, and is at once, according as we view him in the one or the other of them, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit&#8211;a Divine Three, who bear towards Each Other the several relations which those names indicate, and are {125} in that <u>respect distinct from Each Other<\/u>, and in that alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\">John Henry Newman<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmanreader.org\/works\/grammar\/chapter5-2.html\">An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent<\/a><\/i>, Chapter 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one is to be called a Theist, who does not believe in a Personal God, whatever difficulty there may be in defining the word &#8220;Personal.&#8221; Now it is the belief of Catholics about the Supreme Being, that this essential characteristic of His Nature is reiterated in three distinct ways or modes; so that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/cant-be-called-a-theist-if-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can&#8217;t be called a Theist if you don&#8217;t believe in a Personal God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2523,2964,2121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}