Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity

Paul D. Molnar is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John's University in New York, USA. He has published numerous articles in the world's leading journals together with four other books including: Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity (2009).

• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations New Introduction by Paul D. Molnar1. The Purpose of a Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity and Its Neglect Today 2. Christology and the Trinity: Some Dogmatic Implications of Barth's Rejection of Ebionite and Docetic Christology 3. Christology, Resurrection, Election and the Trinity: The Place of the Logos Asarkos in Contemporary Theology 4. Reconsidering Divine Freedom5. Experience and the Theology of the Trinity: How Karl Rahner's Method Affects His Understanding of Revelation, Grace and the Trinity 6. Can a Metaphysical Principle of Relationality Be Substituted for the Relations of the Immanent Trinity? Karl Barth and the Current Discussion 7. Karl Rahner and Thomas T. Torrance: God's Self-Communication in Christ with Special Emphasis on Interpreting Christ's Resurrection 8. The Function of the Trinity in Jurgen Moltmann's Ecological Doctrine of Creation 9. Persons in Communion and God as the Mystery of the World: Alan Torrance, Eberhard Jungel and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity 10. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology: Colin Gunton, Karl Barth and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity 11. Conclusion Appendix Selected Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

The first edition of this book in 2002 was a now classic account of the freedom of God as understood in the doctrine of the immanent Trinity. The second edition is not just a reprint but a thorough revision with a re-configured preface, a new chapter on Divine Freedom, and many revisions and updatings to material on Jenson, Moltmann, Pannenberg, Jüngel and Schleiermacher. In clarity, power and effectiveness, it takes its place at the heart of contemporary discussion of the doctrine of God. I thoroughly recommend this new edition.