THE TRINITY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON THE TRINITY.(Review) (book review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December, 2000 by BDM

THE TRINITY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON THE TRINITY. Edited by STEPHEN T. DAVIS, DANIEL KENDALL, SJ., and GERALD O'COLLINS, S.J. Oxford University Press. 393 pp. $39.95.

This worthwhile collection, the outcome of a "Trinity Summit" held in New York at Easter 1998, differs from standard current books on the Trinity (see previous review) in two ways. First, it broaches issues usually left aside in trinitarian theology. Thus David Brown offers an illuminating and theologically interesting analysis of the Trinity in art, and Marguerite Shuster a sobering account of the fate of the Trinity in (mostly Protestant) preaching, which concludes with a ringing call for a return to doctrinal preaching. And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches...

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