Trinitarian Language

In the church's struggle to come up with adequate language to describe/explain God a new favorite has emerged to replace the more traditional person language of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The new attempt is to refer to them as Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. While these are validly true descriptions of the actions of God I'm beginning to question how far the church should go in this direction. Yes it reduces the patristic overtones that traditionally are used to squeeze out the feminine perspective. But my fear is that by limiting the God-head to what God does we have done to God what we have already done to ourselves.

Much has already been written about the anthropocentric tendency to identify ourselves by what we 'do'. I'm a 'doctor', or a 'teacher' or a 'stay-at-home-parent'. But such descriptors limit us to one dimension, primarily the vocational sphere. Our job (or lack there of) only tells a part of our story. It mitigates the fact that we are also children, friends, Christians, and people with a variety of interests, hobbies, gifts, relationships and experiences.

As Christians the primary direction of our faith is built upon a relationship with the Father, through the access gained by the Son, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. If we lose the relational nature of the Trinity will we also lose our relationship with the Trinity???

I really am interested in the thoughts.