TRINITARIAN DOXOLOGY: REASSESSING JOHN OWEN’S CONTRIBUTION TO REFORMED ORTHODOX TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY

An Examination of Karl Rahner’s Trinitarian Theology

Karl Rahner’s short but influential work, The Trinity, is examined in this essay. I also consider some of Rahner’s other writings on the Trinity in order to better explicate the theological book under discussion. I locate Rahner’s Trinitarian writings within their ecclesiological and theological context, and then systematically expound The Trinity in order to demonstrate how Rahner attempts to ...

Life as Relation: Classical Metaphysics and Trinitarian Ontology

Life is a theological and metaphysical problem, because it constitutes the apex of the realm of being. The Aristotelian Unmoved Mover was identified with Life as the act of thinking. Christian doctrine affirms that God is triune just as Life, but here identified both with Logos and Love. The ontology of the First Principle is different in Classical metaphysics and in Trinitarian theology. The q...

Trinitarian Telos: Tracing Some Theological Links from God’s Triunity to Christian Eschatology

Drawing on the work of Peter Leithart and Robert Jenson, this article demonstrates that Christian eschatology is inescapably founded on the doctrine of God’s triunity. The basis for many of the “systems” used by Christian eschatology is found antecedently within the triunity of God’s being. The divine activity within the economy by which creation is being directed towards its glorious climax is...

Reforming Theology: Toward a Postmodern Reformed Dogmatics

The Early Christian Reception of Genesis 18: From Theophany to Trinitarian Symbolism

Heartfelt thanks to Michael Slusser for his valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this text. 1. Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster John Knox, 1973), 204; Gordon Wenham, Genesis 16–50 (Dallas: Word, 2002), 44: “according to traditional source analysis . . . chaps. 18–19 are almost pure J. More precisely, all of 18:1–19:38 except 19:29 (P) is conventionally a...