Online Journal Article: "The Bible And The Trinity In Recent Thought: Review, Analysis, And Constructive Proposal " JETS 60/1 (2017): 35–48

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From the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS)

Abstract: The Bible and the Trinity are bound together at the heart of the Christian confession. The present article considers the relationship between the Bible and the Trinity from two vantage points and by means of engagement with some of the most significant recent studies on
the Bible and the Trinity. First, the article considers how the Bible is “in the Trinity,” addressing the Bible’s place within the triune God’s self-presentation to his people. Second, it considers how the Trinity is “in the Bible,” focusing on three patterns of divine naming that recur throughout Holy Scripture. The article observes a monotheistic pattern that identifies the three
persons with the one God of Israel, a relational pattern that distinguishes the persons by virtue
of their mutual, asymmetrically ordered, dialogical relations, and a metaphysical pattern that
indicates how the person transcend categories of creaturely being and creaturely naming.

Key Words: Trinity, divine names, monotheism, relations, metaphysics