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| The Trinity & The Church | | Date Created: Dec 20, 2003, 10:17 PM |
| Does the church, as a community of God's people, reflect the trinitarian communion that is constitutive of the very being and life of God? Many confessional evangelicals appear to be uncomfortable with affirming and developing a trinitarian ecclesiology of communion. It is not so much that they have openly attacked the arguments of those who describe the fellowship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as paradigmatic for ecclesial life and fellowship. Rather, confessional Reformed and Lutheran scholars appear to have avoided the question altogether. A quick search of theological journals published by institutions associated with orthodox confessional Protestantism uncovers little or no interest in the connection between the Trinity and the Church. Read more. |
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