Confessing the Triune God

Castelo

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781630873769
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

At the heart of Christian witness is the confession of the triune God. Confessing the Triune God seeks to extend a conversation on Christianity's first article by way of locating Trinitarianism in the life of the worshiping faithful. It does so through an ongoing dialectic between broad and particular confessional lines. Its breadth is constituted by an ongoing assessment of ecumenical consensus and scholarly debates related to Trinitarianism; its repeated framing stems from and returns to the Wesleyan and Methodist family of traditions. In this way, Christian commitments regarding the Trinity can be depicted for their wide appeal as well as their particular logic within a specific worshiping community. The work seeks to guide readers through a process of growing awareness of how the dogma of the Trinity is central to all that Christians say, do, and hope to be.

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One: Coming to Terms with the Christian God
• Two: Trinitarianism as a Mechanism of Coherence
• Three: Is Trinitarianism Biblical?
• Four: The Tradition of Early Trinitarian Thought
• Five: Imagining and Speaking the Trinity
• Six: Theology and Economy
• Seven: Encountering and Being Transformed by the Trinitarian Mystery
• Eight: Ordering a Heavenly Society
• Nine: The Praise of the Saints
• Bibliography