Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters

Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters

Paul’s ways of speaking about God, Jesus, and the Spirit are intricately intertwined: talking about any one of the three, for Paul, implies reference to all of them together. However, much current Pauline scholarship discusses Paul’s God-, Christ-, and Spirit-language without reference to trinitarian theology.<br/><br/>In contrast to that trend, Wesley Hill argues in this book that later, post-Pauline trinitarian theologies represent a better approach, opening a fresh angle on Paul’s earlier talk about God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Spirit. Hill looks critically at certain well-known discussions in the field of New Testament studies -- those by N. T. Wright, Richard Bauckham, Larry Hurtado, and others -- in light of patristic and contemporary trinitarian theologies, resulting in an innovative approach to an old set of questions.<br/><br/>Adeptly integrating biblical exegesis and historical-systematic theology, Hill’s <i>Paul and the Trinity</i> shows how trinitarian theologies illumine interpretive difficulties in a way that more recent theological concepts have failed to do.<br/><br/>Watch a 2015 interview with the author of this book here:<br/><br/><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/psWfLx9lWBw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>