Review: 'Nice and Hot Disputes'. The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Seventeenth Century

2004 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 765-768
Author(s):  
K. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

Minimal Faith and Irenic Ideals in Seventeenth-Century Scholarly Circles

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Nellen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Articles Of Faith ◽  
Second Category ◽  
The Trinity

This article shows how the Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), inspired by his friend Isaac Casaubon, sought to introduce a procedure for mitigating strife in the Christian church. He proclaimed a division between a set of self-evident, universally accepted key tenets, to be endorsed by all believers, and a larger number of secondary, not completely certain articles of faith, which were to be left open for friendly debate. The doctrine of the Trinity belonged to the second category; it should be treated in a careful, detached way, in words that did not go beyond the terminology of the Bible. However, defenders of this irenic stance laid themselves open to severe criticism: the example of the conservative Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrates how they were censured for giving up divinely inspired truth for a chimerical unionist ideal which cajoled them into reintroducing the early Christian heresy of Arianism, now called Socinianism.

scholarly journals TRINITARIAN DOXOLOGY: REASSESSING JOHN OWEN’S CONTRIBUTION TO REFORMED ORTHODOX TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-68
Author(s):  
Ryan M McGraw
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Covenant Theology ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
John Owen ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Or Applications

Reformed orthodox theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) referred to the doctrine of the Trinity as ‘the foundation of fundamentals’. Richard Muller notes that if any dogma comes close to achieving such status, it is the doctrine of the Trinity. It is thus surprising that most modern treatments of trinitarian theology assume that sixteenth and seventeenth century Reformed orthodoxy had virtually nothing to contribute to this vital doctrine. The recent Cambridge Companion to the Trinity and the Oxford Handbook of the Trinity both reflect this assumption. This article addresses how Reformed authors tried to harmonise the historical doctrine of the Trinity with their principle of sola scriptura. It does not treat positive developments or applications of the doctrine. The void left in the secondary literature has not adequately probed the bold claims of Voetius or the scholarly reflections of Muller. John Owen (1616-1683) is a growing exception to this trend. Both historians and theologians are starting to recognise his significance as a theologian in general and a trinitarian theologian in particular, but they often stop short of observing how he intertwined his trinitarian theology and piety throughout his writings. This article will reassess Owen’s contribution to Reformed trinitarian theology in two major segments. The first does so by critiquing two recent treatments of his work. The remaining material explores the theological foundations of Owen’s trinitarian doxology followed by the theological and practical conclusions that he drew from his theology in relation to Scripture, spiritual affections, covenant theology, and ecclesiology. Owen illustrates that one of the primary contributions of Reformed orthodoxy to trinitarian theology lies in its integration into Reformed soteriology and piety. This article reassesses Owen’s contribution to trinitarian theology and provides clues for scholars to trace the significance of the Reformed contribution to trinitarian theology in other authors within that tradition.

Medieval Theology I

2018 ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Thomas Nail
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

The argument of this chapter is that the descriptive regime of tensional motion rises to historical dominance during the period from around the fifth century CE to around the end of the seventeenth century—roughly the long medieval and early modern periods. The rise of this new regime occurs alongside the rising predominance of a new theological description of being as force. The theological description of force took two historical forms during this period: the physics of force and the doctrine of the Trinity. Together, these form the tradition of natural theology, the theory of relation between divine and natural being.

Heat and Light

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-98
Author(s):  
Thomas H. McCall ◽  
Keith D. Stanglin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Divine Attributes ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Good Works ◽  
The North ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Trinity

Chapter 2 begins the account of Arminian theology after Arminius, turning attention to the complexities of the continental Remonstrant and English Arminian theologies as they took shape in the seventeenth century. After a historical overview of the controversies surrounding the Synod of Dordt (including the British involvement in the Dutch controversies), we provide an account of the theology of Dutch Remonstrantism. After examining the relationship between Scripture and reason, we then turn attention to the doctrine of God, theological anthropology, and the doctrines of salvation. Moving across the North Sea, we then explore the development of doctrine within the English variants of Arminian theology, describing issues related to the doctrine of the Trinity, the proper understanding of the divine attributes, the extent of the atonement, and the doctrine of justification and its relation to good works.

The Doctrine of the Trinity

1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
Piet SCHOONENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

Essays in Analytic Theology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Divine Attributes ◽  
German Translation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Human Condition

This book is the first of two volumes collecting together the most substantial work in analytic theology that I have done between 2003 and 2018. The essays in this volume focus on the nature of God, whereas the essays in the companion volume focus on humanity and the human condition. The essays in the first part of this volume deal with issues in the philosophy of theology having to do with discourse about God and the authority of scripture; the essays in the second part focus on divine attributes; and the essays in the third part discuss the doctrine of the trinity and related issues. The book includes one new essay, another essay that was previously published only in German translation, and new postscripts to two of the essays.

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