{"id":39087,"date":"2017-06-11T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=39087"},"modified":"2017-06-11T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T04:11:00","slug":"new-book-what-is-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/new-book-what-is-the-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"new book: What is the Trinity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/7160658 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39088\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/post-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/post-image.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/post-image-281x450.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>On this Trinity Sunday, I&#8217;m happy to announce the release of my new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.what-is-the-trinity.com\/order\/\"><em><strong>What is the Trinity? Thinking about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This book aims to bring <strong>some clarity<\/strong> to the subject, by explaining several undeniable facts and distinctions. It is intended to be helpful to all Christians, and to promote clear thinking on this subject. I neither hide nor push my views. It focuses not on exegetical arguments, but rather on <strong>the ideas<\/strong> which we bring to our reading of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapters discuss<\/strong>: the fear surrounding this subject, two importantly different uses of the term &#8220;Trinity,&#8221; the origin of the first trinitarian creed, nailing down the meaning of two key terms <em>ousia<\/em> (essence, being, substance) and &#8220;Person,&#8221; different approaches to understanding the Trinity, the relevance of &#8220;mystery,&#8221; and how it raises questions about the authoritative sources of Christian doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>The book <strong>does <em>not<\/em> try to give you all the answers<\/strong>, but rather seeks to equip you to successfully explore this subject on your own. It is written as clearly as possible, and dozens of footnotes point you towards further information.<\/p>\n<p>My <strong>thanks<\/strong> to Daryl Brautigam, Terence Mosher, Ben Nasmith, and Ashley Shetler for their feedback on various drafts of the book.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s available in paperback now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/7160658\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For the ebook version, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.what-is-the-trinity.com\/order\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;ll be on Amazon within a few days.<\/li>\n<li>Probably within a week or so there will be an audiobook version which has the full text, but not the footnotes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are qualified and interested in <strong>translating<\/strong> this book into another language, such as Chinese, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, French, Spanish, Polish, etc., please contact me with the form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.what-is-the-trinity.com\/contact-2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39088,"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":[16,14,20,77,76,13,3,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-mystery","category-protestant","category-roman-catholicism","category-theologians","category-theories","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087","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=39087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39093,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087\/revisions\/39093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}