Donald Fairbairn’s Life in the Trinity: An Introduction to Theology with the Help of the Church Fathers 
One passing comment caught my eye in particular. He explains the difference between Trinitarian monotheism and other forms of monotheism by saying that “Judaism and Islam properly maintain the distinction between God and all that he has created, but they offer human beings little more than servant status in God’s purposes.”
That’s true, and it’s very revealing: It means that Judaism and Islam are both stuck in the pre-Christian world, in the childhood and adolescence of humanity. Only Christianity surpasses the childhood of man by insisting that in Christ we have become God’s friends, participants in His life, co-rulers of His world.
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