The Trinity in a Pluralistic Age: Theological Essays on Culture and Religion

by Kevin J. Vonhoozer, Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Editor)

Overview

This provocative collection of papers from an international array of theologians explores the Christian doctrine of the Trinity in the context of twentieth-century cultural and religious pluralism.

How should Christians think about their faith in relation to other faiths and in relation to culture in general? Can the Trinity fit into a global religion? These essays — originally presented at the Fifth Edinburgh Dogmatic Conference — show how a full-orbed Trinitarian doctrine, with a proper emphasis on both the One and the Three, provides the necessary resources for successfully addressing the problems and the possibilities of contemporary pluralism.

• Gary Badcock
• Richard Bauckham
• Henri Blocher
• Gerald Bray
• Colin Gunton
• Trevor Hart
• Lesslie Newbigin
• Roland Poupin
• Kevin J. Vanhoozer
• Stephen Williams

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802841179
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/29/2003
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Kevin J. Vanhoozer is research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Among his many books are Biblical Authority after Babel and Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The One-in-Three and the Many

1. The Trinity as Public Truth
   Lesslie Newbigin
2. Explaining Christianity to Pagans: The Second-Century Apologists
   Gerald Bray
3. The Trinity and 'Other Religions'
   Stephen Williams
4. Does the Trinity Belong in a Theology of Religions? On Angling in the Rubicon and the 'Identity' of God
   Kevin J. Vanhoozer
5. Is there a Trinitarian Experience in Sufism?
   Roland Poupin
6. The Trinity, Natural Theology, and a Theology of Nature
   Colin Gunton
7. Immanence and Transcendence in Trinitarian Theology
   Henri Blocher
8. Karl Barth, the Trinity, and Pluralism
   Trevor Hart
9. Karl Rahner, the Trinity, and Religious Pluralism
   Gary Badcock
10. Jürgen Moltmann's The Trinity and the Kingdom of God and the Question of Pluralism
    Richard Bauckham

Editorial Reviews

Journal of Ecumenical Studies
"Although diehard modernists will probably not be convinced of the merit in retaining the kinds of traditional trinitarian views held by most of the authors, the articles are by and large well written and worthwhile. This publication can make a genuine contribution to any serious attempt at dialogue regarding the role and function of trinitarian thought in the modern age."

Trinity Journal
"Overall, this book's essays display fine scholarship and rigorous analysis, and they show how Christianity—despite accusations of narrowness and intolerance—can address the problem of the one and the many, via the doctrine of the Trinity, far better than its competitors."

Word & World
"This volume will be useful for anyone who is looking for a sound theological position from which to begin thinking through the difficult issues raised by pluralism."

D. A. Carson
—Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
"In an age dominated by philosophical pluralism and process theology, it is encouraging to read a collection of essays most of which draw on biblical and historical resources to think through the doctrine of the Trinity afresh. In some ways these essays are set over against contemporary trends, yet never in an obscurantist fashion. While most of them overtly maintain orthodoxy, they also attempt to engage the contemporary debate both wisely and well, and some of them are groundbreaking. This book deserves wide circulation."

From the Publisher

Although diehard modernists will probably not be convinced of the merit in retaining the kinds of traditional trinitarian views held by most of the authors, the articles are by and large well written and worthwhile. This publication can make a genuine contribution to any serious attempt at dialogue regarding the role and function of trinitarian thought in the modern age.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies

This volume will be useful for anyone who is looking for a sound theological position from which to begin thinking through the difficult issues raised by pluralism.

Word & World

Overall, this book's essays display fine scholarship and rigorous analysis, and they show how Christianity—despite accusations of narrowness and intolerance—can address the problem of the one and the many, via the doctrine of the Trinity, far better than its competitors.

Trinity Journal