delighting in the trinity by michael reeves

Grounding his explanation in 1 Corinthians 11:3, he describes the father-son-man-woman chain of relationship as a gracious cascade of love (as opposed to authority): This nature is illustrated in a beautiful explanation of Biblical headship, a sometimes-contentious issue with regard to the place of women in Christian theology. 33).Īfter establishing the eternal pre-existence of Jesus (Hebrews 1:10, John 17:24, Colossians 1:16-17), Reeves explains the significant import of this – that God has been in loving relationship for eternity past, and so when it comes to His creation, he is already by his very nature a God of relational love.

Somehow the Son must be his own Father, send himself, love himself, pray to himself, seat himself at his own right hand (2012, p. Other heterodox approaches to the Trinity are discussed, including modalism (God is one person with three expressions of Himself, like three roles) and polytheism (“a gaggle of Gods”), and why these are less logically compelling than the standard three-person trinitarian view. Later in discussion of the Fatherhood of God, the author develops his critique of the Islamic view of God and the negative implications of such an approach. In comparison to Islam, he explains that the Biblical call to the oneness of God (“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.” Deuteronomy 6:4) is not a call to “mathematical singularity.” He helpfully points out the Hebrew word for “one” in this passage is the same used in Genesis 2:24 to describe the oneness of Adam and Eve, another relational singularity.

In the first chapters, Reeves introduces the Trinity as a unique Christian approach that significantly differentiates it from all other religions.

Delighting in the trinity by michael reeves