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A concise and clear introduction of globalization.

Relationality is the central term in the new approach to the doctrine of the Trinity. The older metaphysic of substance, despite its usefulness in the task of asserting the equality of the Three, is spoilt by the image of God that is associated with it. God as substance speaks of an isolated, passionless monad. The modern European metaphysic of subjectivity allows for the idea of a person to person communication, but

Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian and Origen…informed in varying measure by liturgical practice, the rule of faith, their exegesis of the Scriptures, and their understanding of the tradition of the church, assumed that naming of the Logos and the Spirit alongside the Father was not incompatible with asserting the monarchy. They clarified terminology, invented crucial lines of argument, and stated the problem with exac

Whilst this tradition of exegesis is historically important, much of it is hardly convincing today. (Although nor should it be completely dismissed; to take only one example, however unconvincing the details of readings of individual verses, a Christian writer producing an Old Testament theology today might well take the promises to the Davidic king in the kingship psalms as having Christological import.) p. 48