Trinity after Pentecost
By: William P. Atkinson
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781620327791
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Trinity; Holy Spirit; God (Christianity); Pentecostalism
Description: This book views the triune God from a Pentecostal viewpoint. In so doing, it offers a fresh articulation of the theology of the Trinity that starts with Pentecost and with the Spirit. It concludes that the Trinity cannot be adequately appreciated using any single model--whether social, modal, or psychological. Instead, it presents three models--relational, instrumental, and substantial--that need to be held in paradoxical tension with one another. Of these, the relational is the foremost. Pentecost offers rich potential for seeing these relations between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as a dynamic reciprocal "dance" in which each person empties self in order to exalt the other. --From publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and indexes.