{"id":36,"date":"2006-08-03T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T15:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/36"},"modified":"2006-08-06T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T17:29:50","slug":"trinitarian-projects-in-current-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/trinitarian-projects-in-current-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"“trinitarian” projects in current theology"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting quote from Fred Sanders<\/a>‘ “Trinity Talk, Again”, Dialog: A Journal of Theology<\/em>, 44:3, Fall 2005, 264-72.<\/p>\n

…the words \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTrinity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrinitarian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are being employed in unusual new ways in contemporary theological discourse. They sound in a different register than they once did. Your expectations are bound to be frustrated if the occurrence of the word \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTrinity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 suggests to you that the author intends to take up the task of reconciling threeness with oneness. When \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrinitarian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 occurs in titles these days, it is almost never a signal that anything about divine triunity is in view, or even anything christological or pneumatological. Instead, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrinitarian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is now being used in theological parlance to put the Christian edges on doctrines. It serves as a one-word cipher for the specificity of the Christian claim. At one time, the word \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcChristian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 itself may have functioned this way, but calling something trinitarian now does the work the simpler term once did. Perhaps this trend is best accounted for as a sign of a diffuse postliberal ethos in contemporary theology.
\n…The term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrinitarian,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in other words, is now being used to mark out the Christian theological field of discourse as such. There are a couple of downsides to this usage. One is that many books with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTrinity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the title are not books about the Trinity, which is confusing. Another is that the large number of ostensibly trinitarian theologies is really just the usual assortment of diverse theological projects, all of which now make their appeal to being trinitarian. That shows how high this doctrine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stock has risen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it’s now cool to flaunt your Christian credentials by slapping the word “trinitarian” on whatever you’re doing<\/strong>. I have to say, this strikes me as a silly practice, and as Sanders notes, it is really confusing for people searching for books or articles which are really about the doctrine(s) of the Trinity. Before I buy any such book, I go to Amazon and look really closely at the sample and table of contents.<\/p>\n

Could this organization’s name<\/a> be a similar phenomenon?<\/p>\n

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An interesting quote from Fred Sanders‘ “Trinity Talk, Again”, Dialog: A Journal of Theology, 44:3, Fall 2005, 264-72. …the words \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTrinity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrinitarian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are being employed in unusual new ways in contemporary theological discourse. They sound in a different register than they once did. Your expectations are bound to be frustrated if the occurrence of… Read More »“trinitarian” projects in current theology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaints","category-quotes","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}