The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity - Couverture souple

Holmes, Stephen R.

 
9780830839865: The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0830839860 ISBN 13 : 9780830839865
Editeur : Inter-Varsity Press,US, 2012

Synopsis

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 church's 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.Holmes's 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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À propos de l?auteur

Stephen R. Holmes (PhD, King's College London) is senior lecturer in systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His books include Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology, and Christian Doctrine: A Reader, edited with Lindsey Hall and Murray Rae. Additionally, Holmes is editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, and he chairs the Theology and Public Policy Advisory Commission for the Evangelical Alliance UK.

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Éditeur
Inter-Varsity Press,US
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0830839860
ISBN 13 
9780830839865
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Broché
Nombre de pages
231
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