Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

We need hardly remind ourselves of the
confusions, schisms and even religious machismo
to which this gender-shift has given rise across the
centuries, as theologians struggled to make sense
of a presumably all-male Trinity. Thus, as is well
known, the Orthodox/Catholic rupture of 1054 AD
resulted from the vexed ‘filioque’ controversy, over
the procession of the third member of the Trinity. 1
With the Sacred Spirit as a maternal figure,
however, the underlying idea is clarified: Father
God and Mother Spirit and Incarnate Son as the
basic mystery of three-in-one, the threefold
Godhead. Here the concept is evidently that of a
transcendental holy family, in which the Divine
Child— and indeed each child 2 (Mt 18:10,
Jn 11:52)— is eternally born, not of the physical
union between human parents, but rather of the
mystical union between the paternal and maternal
1 Filioque: combination of Latin words meaning ‘and of the Son’, added to
the Nicene Creed of 325 AD by the Visigothic III Council of Toledo in 589
AD: CREDO IN SPIRITUM SANCTUM QUI EX PATRE {FILIOQUE} PROCEDIT: ‘I
believe in the Sacred Spirit, who proceeds from the Father {and the Son}’;
the Orthodox Church did not accept the inclusion, leading to the final rupture
of 1054 AD between the Eastern and Western Churches.
2 I assume that ΜΟΝΟΓΕΝΗΣ (‘uniquely born’) in Jn 1:14 refers to the
singularity of the Virgin Birth, and not to Christ's being the only Son; see Jn
1:12-13 20:17.
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