What Is the Trinity?

by David F. Wells

Publisher:

P&R

, 2012

Overview

The Trinity can be difficult to grasp—if only there were a simple but thorough explanation! David Wells explores the Trinity throughout the Bible and history, defining it, and examining its implications for Christian life.

Contents

Top Highlights

“And yet, Father and Son are distinct from each other. The Father sends; the Son comes.” (Page 16)

“Had the Christian faith merely been a human invention, Christians would never have come up with the doctrine of the Trinity. This doctrine is too thorny to understand and too difficult to explain for anyone to have deliberately fabricated it. There is no other religion that has anything remotely like this. No, this is not the fruit of our imagination but a doctrine of the way things are. God is triune. Knowing him in his triunity is central to Christian faith. Indeed, without this truth, that faith is not Christian at all.” (Page 5)

“We cannot have any allegiance to any other god or ultimate concern but must be subject solely to the God by whom we have been created and then redeemed. This call to loyalty is also a call to understand ourselves within the biblical framework of creation. The call to exclusive loyalty rests on the truth that there is only one God and that God himself is one (see also Deut. 32:31–43; Pss. 83:18; 86:10).” (Page 9)

“It is not enough that we believe in God, as do these spiritualities, however vaguely. We must believe in one God who, in his being, is not confused with creation and who is also tripersonal—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” (Page 12)

“It was the incarnation that made inescapable what had, of course, been there from all eternity but was only hinted at in the earlier biblical record: God is one in being but also tripersonal.” (Page 13)

Product Details

• Title: What Is the Trinity?
• Author: David F. Wells
• Series: Basics of the Faith
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Trinity
• ISBNs: 9781596384361, 9781596385566, 9781596385559, 1596384360, 1596385561, 1596385553
• Resource ID: LLS:WHTTRNTY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:48:36Z

About David F. Wells

David Falconer Wells (born 1939) is Distinguished Senior Research Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books in which his evangelical theology engages with the modern world. Wells received his B.D. from the University of London; Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D. from Manchester University (England); and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School. Wells is a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.