In this book Paul Molnar seeks to set out a contemporary doctrine of the immanent Trinity and to address the issue of how we can know God according to his true nature rather than create him in our own image. It is Paul Molnar's contention that any theology that starts with self-transcendence and not explicitly with God's self-revelation through his Word will result in a flawed perception of both divine and human freedom. He holds that while God is and remains incomprehensible even in his revelation, he can be known as a very definite object in faith and by grace. A sound doctrine of the immanent Trinity recognizes the freedom of God as the basis of our own human freedom and upholds God's distinction from his creation, thus avoiding the theological pitfalls of agnosticism, monism and dualism.'Molnar sets out to place the doctrine of the immanent Trinity firmly back on the agenda of the Christian doctrine of God, and does so to considerable effect. In conversation not only with Barth but with many contemporary proposals in trinitarian theology, he makes a persuasive case for the centrality of the doctrine and against the perils that attend its neglect. This is an essay in Christian dogmatics of a high order, learned, intellectually powerful and spiritually engaged; it deserves to be widely read and discussed. ' John Webster, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford>
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"Molnar sets out to place the doctrine of the immanent Trinity firmly back on the agenda of the Christian doctrine of God, and does so to considerable effect. In conversation not only with Barth but with many contemporary proposals in trinitarian theology, he makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of the doctrine and against the perils that attend its neglect. This is an essay in Christian dogmatics of a high order, learned, intellectually powerful and spiritually engaged; it deserves to be widely read and discussed." (John Webster, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford )
"Although trinitarian doctrine has enjoyed great attention in recent theology, not all of it has been as careful or considered as one might hope. Now by drawing upon classical theologians like Barth, Aquinas and Torrance, who are deployed in an outstanding way, Paul Molnar separates the wheat from the chaff. Masterful, fully documented and trenchant, the result is perhaps the most important work on the Trinity to appear in the last 20 years." -- George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary
"Molnar sets out to place the doctrine of the immanent Trinity firmly back on the agenda of the Christian doctrine of God, and does so to considerable effect. In conversation not only with Barth but with many contemporary proposals in trinitarian theology, he makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of the doctrine and against the perils that attend its neglect. This is an essay in Christian dogmatics of a high order, learned, intellectually powerful and spiritually engaged; it deserves to be widely read and discussed." (, )
"Although trinitarian doctrine has enjoyed great attention in recent theology, not all of it has been as careful or considered as one might hope. Now by drawing upon classical theologians like Barth, Aquinas and Torrance, who are deployed in an outstanding way, Paul Molnar separates the wheat from the chaff. Masterful, fully documented and trenchant, the result is perhaps the most important work on the Trinity to appear in the last 20 years." -- George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary
'This is a scholarly work of great depth and thorough research, in a complex and detailed subject ... This book will be of great worth to any reader wishing to develop a richer understanding of the Trinity, not least because of its depth of research and the interaction with Barth and many other theologians.'
J. P. Mackenzie, European Journal of Theology, 2007
mention in Bulletin de Theologie Dogamtique, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques, 2008
"Molnar sets out to place the doctrine of the immanent Trinity firmly back on the agenda of the Christian doctrine of God, and does so to considerable effect. In conversation not only with Barth but with many contemporary proposals in trinitarian theology, he makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of the doctrine and against the perils that attend its neglect. This is an essay in Christian dogmatics of a high order, learned, intellectually powerful and spiritually engaged; it deserves to be widely read and discussed." (, )
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Paul D. Molnar is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John's University, New York.
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This book by Professor Paul Molnar, is a real gem. The subject matter is very deep and difficult, yet he makes it understandable to the interested laymen. Throughout he show where a lot of contemporary Theologians go off track in their thinking on the Christian Revelation of the Incarnation and its Trinitarian implications. He documents the influence of "Relational" views of God's being and how Hegelian being constituted through historical process, trumps the ontological priority of God's being a Self reliant reality, outside of the World/Creation. God would have still been the Triune God, even if God had not Created the Universe. This ties in with Karl Barth's emphasis on God's Freedom. The World does not constitute God's being. God is free in Relation to the Created World. This is just some of what this book touches upon. It helped me a lot and pointed out a lot of what I had sensed for myself, thats wrong in much current Christological writing.
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Cryptic, dogmatic and polluted with long-winded footnotes. This is not a good book of theology by any standard. It displays an alarming single-mindedness (centering around the thinking of Karl Barth); blatantly ignoring valid points of the opposing views and, in the end, teaching nothing.
***STAY AWAY***
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