Trinity After Pentecost

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9333-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

A creative exercise in trinitarian theology that takes Pentecost as the basis for developing a relational, multiple-model understanding of the triune God.

Trinity After Pentecost considers the triune God from a Pentecostal viewpoint. In so doing, it offers a fresh articulation of the theology of the Trinity, taking the Holy Spirit as its starting point. It concludes that the Trinity cannot be adequately appreciated using any single model - whether social, modal, or psychological. Instead, it presents three models - relational, instrumental, and substantial - that must be held in paradoxical tension with one another to gain insight into the Trinity. Of these, the relational model is the foremost. Pentecost offers rich potential for seeing the relations between the Father, the Son and the Spirit as a dynamic reciprocal 'dance', in which each Person empties their 'self ' in order to exalt the others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkinson, William P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1 Introductory Matters
2 Pentecost and the Spirit
3 Pentecost and the Son
4 Pentecost and the Father
5 Pentecost and the Trinity
Bibliography
Subject Index
Author Index
Ancient Document Index