Trinity and History

“Scott Rice’s Trinity and History provides an excellent introduction not only to current issues of theology about the Trinity but also the interpretation of key theologians of the twentieth century. It advances the interpretation of the Trinity in accessible language. I recommend it strongly for anyone interested in Trinitarian theology and recent North American theology with its German roots.”


—Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School





“Trinity and History is an excellent contribution to scholarship. Rice offers incisive analyses of works by Dorner, Barth, Pannenberg, and Jenson, and demonstrates the merits and shortcomings of their accounts of God’s ‘living relation’ to history—a living relation wherein the abundance of God’s triune life shapes and determines the world in the past, present, and future. This is an important work, rich in interpretative insight and constructive promise, that will repay readers’ close attention.”


—Paul Dafydd Jones, University of Virginia





“Scott Rice offers a most intriguing study on the relation between God’s transcendence and eternity and his relationship to the world. Through his incisive analysis of the argumentative progress made in the approaches of Dorner, Barth, Pannenberg, and Jenson, it becomes clear that the doctrine of the Trinity is not only indispensable, but that the historicity of revelation has its root in the immanent relations in God.”


—Friederike Nüssel, Ecumenical Institute, Heidelberg University