Trinity after Pentecost

by William Parsons Atkinson

This book views the triune God from a Pentecostal viewpoint. In so doing, it offers a fresh articulation of the theology of the Trinity that starts with Pentecost and with the Spirit. It concludes that the Trinity cannot be adequately appreciated using any single model - whether social, modal, or psychological. Instead, it presents three models - relational, instrumental, and substantial - that need to be held in paradoxical tension with one another. Of these, the relational is the foremost. Pentecost offers rich potential for seeing these relations between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as a dynamic reciprocal "dance" in which each person empties self in order to exalt the other.

194 pages, Paperback

First published June 18, 2013

About the author

William Parsons Atkinson, 1820–1890. Educator, and historian.

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very well thought out and researched book on the Trinity from a Pentecostal perspective. We are not always clear on what we mean when we say things, even though we understand them within our surplus. This book does an excellent job of baring out what hostiles believe that the Trinity.

[Cameron Coombe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pentecostal contribution to trinitarian theology, worth the read for that reason alone