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3. Several of the themes of this paper are developed further in my chapter "The Opening of Worship/Trinity," in A More Profound Alleluia: Worship and Theology in Harmony, ed. Leanne Van Dyk (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). 4. Ronald J. Feenstra and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., "Introduction," in Trinity, Incarnation, and Atonement: Philosophical Essays (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), 4. The prominence of this theme in recent Trinitarian theology has been analyzed in Faye E. Schott, "God is Love: The Contemporary Theological Movement of Interpreting the Trinity as God's Relational Being" (Ph.D. diss., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1990). 5. See, for example, Cynthia Campbell, "Imago Trinitatis: An Appraisal of Karl Barth's Doctrine of the 'Imago Dei' in Light of His Doctrine of the Trinity" (Ph.D. diss., Southern Methodist University, 1981), 255-59; Colin Gunton, The One, the Three, the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 13-166; Shirley Guthrie, Always Being Reformed: Faith for a Fragmented World (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996), 40-42; Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom, trans. Margeret Kohl (San Fransisco: Harper & Row, 1981), 104, 150, 174; Thomas Torrance, The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996), chapter 7. 6. Thomas R. Thompson, "Imitatio Trinitatis: The Trinity as a Social Model in the Theologies of Jürgen Moltmann and Leonardo Boff" ( Ph.D. diss., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1996), 26. 7. Henry Jansen, Relationality and the Concept of God (Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995), 15; also 62. 8. Christoph Schwöbel, ed., Trinitarian Theology Today: Essays on Divine Being and Action (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1995), 10. 9. History and the Triune God: Contributions to Trinitarian Theology, trans. J. Bowden (New York: Crossroad, 1992), xii. 10. The Household of God (New York: Friendship Press, 1953), 140, 145. 11. The Future of Partnership (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979), 35. It is important to acknowledge that while concern with relationality proceeds with great enthusiasm and is often simply assumed, work in this vein also features vigorous ongoing debates over the proper grounding and articulation of this relational vision: debates over the propriety of the social Trinitarianism, over the definition of divine personhood, over appropriate exercises of human authority in light of worries about subordinationism, over how specific formulations of Trinity doctrine are translated into ecclesiastical structures, and over correct interpretations of both the Gospel according to John and Gregory of Nyssa. What seems universal, despite these areas of disagreements, is enthusiasm for ensuring that self-giving relationality is built into our fundamental idea of divine and human identity. 12. Worship: Its Theology and Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), 198. 13. Theology in Reconstruction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965), 250. 14. Colin Gunton, Theology Through Preaching (Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark, 2001), 56, and Vincent Brümmer, The Model of Love: A Study in Philosophical Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 223, 178. This formulation of the divine-human relationship is also central in Stephen Pickard, "The Trinitarian Dynamics of Belief," in Essentials of Christian Community: Essays for Daniel W. Hardy, ed. David F. Ford and Dennis L. Stamps (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996), 67. 15. Theology Through Preaching, 60. 16. Preaching and Congregation (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1962),8. 17. Von Allmen, Worship, 180, 242, 40. 18. Ibid., 21, 35. Von Allmen continues, "the New Testament shows us the historical ministry of Jesus and hence His whole life, as a liturgical process and in fact as the liturgy, the life of worship, accepted by God" (23). 19. Thomas R. Thompson, "Imitatio Trinitatis," 293, and Benjamin Leslie, Trinitarian Hermeneutics: The Hermeneutical Significance of Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Trinity (New York: Peter Lang, 1991), 36. 20. James B. Torrance, Worship, Community, and the Triune God of Grace (Downer's Grove: Intervarsity, 1996), 18, 7, 43, also 50. 21. Ibid., 72. 22. Themes and Variations for a Christian Doxology: Some Thoughts on the Theology of Worship (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), 17, see 17-40. 23. "The Epiclesis: Sign of Unity and Renewal," Studia Liturgica 6 (1969): 35. 24. Preaching and Congregation, 7, 5, 10-11. 25. The Struggle of Prayer (San Fransisco: Harper & Row, 1980), 36-37. 26. The mediation of Christ is also acknowledged in the phrase "pleading his eternal sacrifice" in a number of Reformed eucharistic rites, particularly in Scotland. See John M. Barkley, " 'Pleading His Eternal Sacrifice' in the Reformed Liturgy," and Bryan D. Spinks, "The Ascension and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ: The Christology and Soteriology Behind the Church of Scotland's Anamnesis and Epiklesis," in The Sacrifice of Praise: Studies on the Themes of Thanksgiving and Redemption in the Central Prayers of the Eucharistic and Baptismal Liturgies, ed. Bryan D. Spinks (Rome: Edizioni Liturgiche, 1981), 185-201. 27. Worship, 139; and H. O. Old, Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Ministers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 182. 28. "Lift Up Your Heads" (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2001). 29. Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), 63. 30. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1991), 34. 31. Being and Becoming: The Doctrine of God in Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), 129. 32. The Trinity and the Kingdom, 148; and John W. de Gruchy, Liberating Reformed Theology: A South African Contribution to an Ecumenical Debate (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), 75. 33. Preaching and Congregation, 36. 34. Worship (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1982), 17; also 31-33. 35. The Bible and Liturgy, trans. John Vriend (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), viii, 6. |
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