Offsite Review: The Quest for the Trinity

Holmes, Stephen R.   The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and ModernityI am interested in The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity as a corrective to some other modern theology movements around the trinity.  It is finally available for kindle and so I will probably pick it up soon.  Nick Norelli’s review is mixed, but positive enough in the areas that I am interested in that I still think I will pick it up.

There’s been a steady stream of books published on the doctrine of the Trinity over the last few decades. Many of them tell the same story about the “œrecovering” or “œrediscovery” of the doctrine, which had allegedly been “œlost” or “œforgotten.” We’re often told that since Karl Barth and Karl Rahner there has been a “œrenaissance” of Trinitarian theology. Recent works (e.g., the multi-authored The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity) have rightly challenged this notion by pointing out that the Trinity has never ceased to be a topic for reflection among theologians in any era.

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