While reading Holy Trinity, Perfect Community by Leonardo Boff, I modified his music as Trinity analogy. He likens the uniqueness in the three to unique types of music, such as samba, Gregorian chant and bluegrass. All are unique, but all are music.

This analogy is adequate, but maybe a better analogy is to break down the pieces that make music what it is and yet to have all three is music in themselves. Maybe the Trinity ought to be compared to rythum, intonation and tempo. Or some other collective of music.

Likely one can have music with Gregorian chant, even without the uniqueness of bluegrass-even if there was no such thing as bluegrass. However, could you have music without tempo? It would cease as music. Likewise God is three and three make one, and without one person of the community, God is no longer God as Trinitarian theology explains and the unique portion that is missing is no longer divine either. Tempo cannot be music without intonation or rythum.

Any thoughts to this. Modify or crystalize my borrowed analogy?

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