The following is an excerpt
from Why Feminizing the Trinity Won't Work: A
Metaphysical Perspective,
by The Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D.
To see the
text in its entirety,
To describe the metaphysical error on which this
feminizing of the Trinity rests is not so easy,
however, for Christians themselves are not used
to thinking of their beloved Trinity in terms of
metaphysical process. They have been drilled to
think that the Trinity is about "persons"––whose
names are Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and who
live in an eternal, self-generating, and self-sustaining
community. While the complex interrelationship among
these divine persons may escape all but the trained
theologian, the fact that these persons actually
exist—and that they are the three unique manifestations
of the unseen fullness of God—comprises the
theological cornerstone of Christian theology and
experience. I have startled several people by suggesting
that the Trinity might actually be seen as the Christian
equivalent of the East's symbol of yin/yang. In
which case the Trinity is primarily about how God
is and moves even beyond the manifestation of persons.
About how God changes from one form into another
within the domain of manifestation and interpenetrates
the mutability of creation with the wholeness of
divine being. The idea that the Trinity might be
about process rather than persons seems to be a
radical notion.
