Triune Chord

Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s contribution toTrinity and Salvation is on the Trinity and music. Fitzgerald overstates when she called about “musical refutation” of heresy, but her analogies are illuminating.

She points to chords as vestigiae Trinitatis: “Each note of the major triad has its own specific relationship with the other notes: The first and second note of the chord form a major third; the first and third note form a perfect fifth; the second and third note form a minor third. If the relati...