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Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity

Copyright 2014 by Jason S. Sexton, Paul S. Fiddes, Stephen R. Holmes, Thomas H. McCall, Paul D. Molnar

ePub ISBN: 978-0-310-49813-1 Copyright July 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Two views on the doctrine of the Trinity / Jason S. Sexton, general editor ; Stephen R. Holmes, Paul D. Molnar, Thomas H. McCall, Paul S. Fiddes.

pages cm. (Counterpoints)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-310-49812-4

1. Trinity. I. Holmes, Stephen R. II. Molnar, Paul D., 1946- III. McCall, Thomas H. IV. Fiddes, Paul S. V. Sexton, Jason S., editor.

BT113.T89 2014

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2014016532

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CONTENTS

PAUL S. FIDDES

Stephen R. Holmes is Senior Lecturer in St. Marys College, University of St. Andrews, UK. He is an ordained Baptist minister and holds the BA degree from the University of Cambridge, an MTh from Spurgeons College, London, and a PhD from Kings College, London. He is editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology and author of God of Grace and God of Glory: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards; Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology; and of The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity.

Paul D. Molnar is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Johns University in New York. A Catholic theologian, he holds the BA from Cathedral College, the MA from St. Johns University, and the PhD in Contemporary Systematic Theology from Fordham University. He is general editor of the Peter Lang Series: Issues in Systematic Theology, Editor of the Karl Barth Society of North America Newsletter, and Past-President, Member at Large of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, and consulting editor with the Scottish Journal of Theology. His publications include Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the ; Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding; and Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity.

Thomas H. McCall is Associate Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, where he is also the Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. He holds the BA from Hobe Sound Bible College, the MA from Wesley Biblical Seminary, and the PhD from Calvin Theological Seminary. He is coeditor (with Michael C. Rea) of and a contributor to Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity; coauthor (with Keith D. Stanglin) of Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace; and author of Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Philosophical and Systematic Theologians on the Metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology; and Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters.

Paul S. Fiddes is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford, and Director of Research at Regents Park College, Oxford, having been Principal of the College from 1989 to 2007. He read for a double first in English Literature and Theology at St. Peters College, Oxford, after which he completed a PhD at Oxford, while also preparing for ordination in the Baptist Union of Great Britain. After Postdoctoral work in the University of Tbingen, he returned to Regents Park as Fellow and Tutor in Doctrine whilst also becoming Lecturer in Theology at St Peters. Among his many publications are: The Creative Suffering of God; Past Event and Present Salvation: The Christian Idea of Atonement; Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine; The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature; Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity; Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context.

Jason S. Sexton is Research Associate at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He holds a BA in Theology from The Masters College, the MDiv and ThM in Systematic Theology from The Masters Seminary, and the PhD from The University of St. Andrews, UK; he has done postdoctoral work at Oak Hill College, London, and has taught theology at Ridley Hall, University of Cambridge, and also at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in California. He is author of The Trinitarian Theology of Stanley J. Grenz, and coeditor (with Derek J. Tidball and Brian S. Harris) of Revisioning, Renewing, Rediscovering the Triune Center: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Grenz.