Trinitarian theology after Barth2011
by Myk Habets
"Like the Dogmatics in which it is arguably the driving force, Barth{u2019}s doctrine of the Trinity is a magisterial but incomplete achievement. Why magisterial? Partly because of its sheer scale and artistry. Partly because Barth understood very clearly at a critical point in the history of Protestant theology that it is from Trinitarian teaching that Christian dogmatics derives not only the entirety of what it has to say about God, but also what it has to say about the relation of God and creatures; others before him in the modern Protestant tradition had let the doctrine of the Trinity loose in this way (Dorner{u2019}s seriously neglected System of Christian Doctrine is a case in point), but Barth did so with consummate skill and sense of occasion. Partly, again, because of the...