Category: Karl Barth

There is a lot of discussion going on about the Trinity these days. There was a debate at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School including Wayne Grudem and a related debate within Southern Baptist circles with Duke Divinity School's Curtis Freeman weighing in. This is related to views of women in ministry. Furthermore, there are theological blogs discussing perichoresis and Karl Barth's understanding of the Triune God unrelated to these other discussions.   I have posted links below.   

Here at Duke, Geoffrey Wainwright is teaching a course this semester on the Trinity.  In my time at Duke, the books I have read that have focused on the Trinity are: 

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Anathemas All Around

…debate over Trinity.

Christianity Today Magazine – Oct 14, 2008 12:26 PM

Semi-Arianism Masquerading as Orthodoxy: A Baptist Scholar on the Trinity Weighs in On "Eternal Subordination"

…Curtis Freeman, Director of the Baptist House of Studies, Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. His words, profound and direct, need no commentary from me.October 8, 2008Dear Wade:Thank you for taking up this issue of the Trinity. Getting a Trinitarian conversation going among Baptists is more important than one might first expect given …

Wade Burleson – Grace and Truth to You – Oct 22, 2008 (6 days ago)

Trinitarian Debates at Trinity

…about the Trinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Central to the debate has been the subject of whether the Son eternally submits to the Father. Together Wayne Grudem and Bruce Ware argued that relations of authority and submission do indeed exist among the persons of the Godhead, while Tom McCall and Keith Yandell argued against this …

Michael Bird & Joel Willitts – Euangelion – Oct 13, 2008 3:13 PM

Trinity Debate Roundup

Collin Hansen has a CT article online about the debate last night.Andy Naselli live-blogged the whole thing.Phil Gons has an excellent post refuting one of the arguments against the Grudem-Ware position.

Justin Taylor – Between Two Worlds – Oct 10, 2008 2:14 PM

Resurrection as God's self-determination: a note on Adam Eitel, Bruce McCormack and Rowan Williams

…relation between Trinity and resurrection in Barth's thought. According to Eitel: "God's eternal triune act of being and Christ's resurrection from the dead are not peculiar or separate acts. Rather, Christ's resurrection was the historical continuation of God's eternal being-in-act…. Put another way, the resurrection was nothing less than the h…

Ben Myers – Faith and Theology – Oct 12, 2008 9:17 PM

Perichoresis and Hospitality

…that the Trinity can meaningfully be described as both one subject and three subjects. The earthly manifestation of the trinitarian perichoresis is seen most clearly in the radical deference and disposability of the divine persons towards one another. The Son does nothing on his own authority, but receives all things from the Father. The Father …

Halden Doerge – Inhabitatio Dei – Sep 27, 2008 4:43 PM

The Perichoretic Church

…to the Trinity, a communion in which personhood and sociality are equiprimal" (After Our Likeness, 213). What makes the church an image of the divine perichoresis of the Trinity is not that human beings qua human being interpenetrate one another in a way analogous to the trinitarian relations. Rather it is that the church, as the community indwe…

Halden Doerge – Inhabitatio Dei – Sep 25, 2008 9:53 PM

Revisiting Perichoresis

…reality as Trinity. We cannot simply "read" the divine dynamic of perichoretic unity from God onto created relationality. I think, however, that the criticisms of projects like Gunton's which use perichoresis as a sort of trancendental miss the mark. The problem is not that Gunton illegitimately extends a divine concept to human relationality. T…

Halden Doerge – Inhabitatio Dei – Sep 25, 2008 9:11 PM