Document Type
Publication - Book Chapter
What Can We Know of the Inner Relations among Members of the Trinity?
Department
Religion
Date of Activity
Spring 2025
Abstract
This chapter is part of a larger work addressing questions about the Trinity gleaned from contemporary debates in the SDA church over the Trinity. In particular, it sees to biblically identify and limit what we can know about the Immanent perspective of the Trinity - what their inner relations are. This is in contrast to an Economic View of the Trinity which views the Triune Gohead through the lens of how each relates to us in the economy of salvation. This chapter also briefly gives biblical critiques of the Mormon and Jehovah's Witnesses views of the Godhead, as well as a brief engagement and biblical critique of Lynn Marie Tonstad's queer approach to the Trinity.
Recommended Citation
“What Can We Know of the Inner Relations of the Trinity?” in Exploring the Trinity: Questions and Answers. Edited by Clinton Wahlen and John C. Peckham. Biblical Research Institute Studies on the Trinity, Volume 2. Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2025. Chapter 52, p. 401-410.