By William Hasker
This can be the 1st full-length learn of the doctrine of the Trinity from the point of view of analytic philosophical theology. William Hasker reports the facts pertaining to fourth-century pro-Nicene trinitarianism within the gentle of modern advancements within the scholarship in this interval, arguing for specific interpretations of the most important ideas. He then stories and criticizes contemporary paintings at the factor of the divine three-in-oneness, together with systematic theologians similar to Barth, Rahner, Moltmann, and Zizioulas, and analytic philosophers of faith resembling Leftow, van Inwagen, Craig, and Swinburne. within the ultimate a part of the e-book he develops a delicately articulated social doctrine of the Trinity that's coherent, intelligible, and trustworthy to scripture and tradition.
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