Quest For The Trinity
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Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. ‘The History That God Is’: Studying The Doctrine Of The Trinity In The Twenty-First Century
2. ‘In Your Light, We See Light’: The Trinity In The Bible
3. ‘Always With Him Are His Word And Wisdom’: Early Patristic Developments In The Doctrine Of The Trinity
4. ‘From The Ousia Of The Father’: The Fourth-Century Debates 1
5. ‘The Godhead Is By Nature Simple’: The Fourth-Century Debates 2
6. ‘Understood By A Few Saints And Holy Persons’: The West And Augustine
Interlude: The Harvest Of Patristic Trinitarianism
7. ‘Distinction In The Persons But Unity In The Nature’: The Medieval Doctrine Of The Trinity
8. ‘By The Testimonies Of The Scriptures Or By Manifest Reason’: Anti-Trinitarianism From The Reformation To The Eighteenth Century
9. ‘A Transformation Which Will Go Back To Its Very Beginning’: The Doctrine Of The Trinity Since 1800
Bibliography Of Works Cited
Index Of Biblical Texts Cited
Index Of Technical Terms/Phrases In Latin/Greek
General Index Of Authors And Subjects
Additional Info
The doctrine of the Trinity was settled in the fourth century, and maintained, with only very minor disagreement or development, by all strands of the church–Western and Eastern, Protestant and Catholic–until the modern period. In the twentieth century, there arose a sense that the doctrine had been neglected and stood in need of recovery. In The Quest for the Trinity, Holmes takes us on a remarkable journey through 2,000 years of the Christian doctrine of God. We witness the churchs discovery of the Trinity from the biblical testimony, its crucial patristic developments, and medieval and Reformation continuity. We are also confronted with the questioning of traditional dogma during the Enlightenment, and asked to consider anew the character of the modern Trinitarian revival. Holmess controversial conclusion is that the explosion of theological work in recent decades claiming to recapture the heart of Christian theology in fact deeply misunderstands and misappropriates the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. Yet his aim is constructive: to grasp the wisdom of the past and, ultimately, to bring a clearer understanding of the meaning of the present.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780830839865
ISBN10: 0830839860
Stephen Holmes
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: November 2012
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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