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

by Wesley Hill

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2015

Overview

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. 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. Adeptly integrating biblical exegesis and historical-systematic theology, Hill’s Paul and the Trinity shows how Trinitarian theologies illumine interpretive difficulties in a way that more recent theological concepts have failed to do.

Contents

Top Highlights

“the more recent theological conceptuality (a ‘christological’ model) has replaced another (a ‘trinitarian’ model” (Page 1)

“The split Paul introduces in the Shema between the creative power of God and Christ is unique in terms of the history of religion.” (Page 8)

“The identities of God, Christ, and the Spirit² were explicated by means of their relations to and with one another” (Pages 1–2)

“Seeing such self-emptying, the hearers/readers of the Christ-hymn see what it looks like to be God.” (Page 92)

“the man Jesus now occupies the place given to Wisdom in Jewish traditions” (Page 8)

Product Details

• Title: Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters
• Author: Wesley Hill
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Trinity › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9780802869647, 0802869645
• Resource ID: LLS:PAULTRINITY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:09:44Z

About Wesley Hill

Wesley Hill (PhD, Durham University) is assistant professor of biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry. He is the author of Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters and the much-discussed Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality. Hill is on the editorial board of and is a columnist for Christianity Today. He also contributes to Books and Culture and First Things.