The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary study is the result of an international and ecumenical meeting of nineteen scholars held in New York at Easter 1998: the Trinity Summit. They are experts in fields such as the Bible, ancient Christian writers, ancient Jewish writers, theology, philosophy, art, and preaching. This is a well researched, skillfully argued, and at times provocative volume on the belief at the very heart of Christianity: the Holy Trinity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198269935
• ISBN13: 9780198269939
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

an excellent volume on the Trinity

where to begin? this volume is absolutely packed full of excellent essays on the Trinity. divided into different sections (the Biblical witness; the Patristic witness; Systematic issues; Preaching the Trinity), this volume covers more ground than any other edition that i have come across, and combined with the absolutely stellar level of scholarship from all disciplines, the reader is in for a certain treat.i have a few minor complaints, though. first, that there is no analysis of the FILIOQUE, and connected with this, that there is (as far as i could tell) no real voice for the Eastern Orthodox approach. finally, it seems as though modern defenses of the social model of the Trinity aren't given anything like a fair hearing. but there is so much that is good in this book! the analysis of augustine's Trinitarian theology is (thank God) a breath of fresh air, and the same can be said for the analysis given here of the Cappadocian formulation. the high point of the book, for me, was van beeck's 'Trinitarian Theology as Participation', which gave a view of all existence and the universe in its totality as saturated in the Trinity.an excellent book, i highly recommend it.