MonoThreeism

“You could buy this book on the merits of the subtitle alone! It sets the tone for the tome: apologetic integrity cloaked in irreverent honesty. It reads like the Screwtape Letters baptized in the blood of Captain Jack Sparrow. This is a rare jewel that will make you laugh as hard as it will make you think.”


—Mark Moore, author of Core 52





“Jonathan Lyonhart has produced an entertaining and vivid guide to the central Christian doctrine of the Triune God. He has truly succeeded in rendering its more technical aspects accessible to the ordinary reader without surrendering its inaccessible mystery and its invitation to wonder.”


—John Milbank, University of Nottingham





“Witty, winsome, and creative, Lyonhart sets the table for a delightful Christmas Eve conversation concerning the enigma of the Trinity. Embodied in the style of Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, this philosophical conversation draws on contemporary connections that are entertaining and thought provoking. This book is an innovative bridge to complex themes for students, pastors, and professors of theology and philosophy.”


—Jennifer M. Matheny, Nazarene Theological Seminary





“MonoThreeism is magic, quite literally. I don’t know how Lyonhart does it, but he’s managed to pack ten books’ worth of wicked wit and mesmerizing wisdom into a single and wonderfully readable book. . . . An eccentric masterpiece.”


—T. W. S. Hunt, author of Way of Faith and Winter with God





“While the Dialogue has traditionally enjoyed an eminent role in the history of philosophy, it has sadly fallen into desuetude of late. Jonathan Lyonhart has remedied this in a book that employs wit, verve, and intellectual brio in a vigorous exploration of the doctrine of the Divine Trinity. Strongly recommended!”


—Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge





“Five parts Socrates to three parts David Hume to two parts Calvin & Hobbes, Lyonhart provides ordinary lay readers with a disarmingly sophisticated account of the Trinity, the church, free will, faith, morality, love, and, as Douglas Adams might have put it, “life, the universe, and everything.” MonoThreeism may well be absurdly arrogant, but it is also enormously useful, as well as being a good deal of fun. I can hardly wait to recommend it to my students.”


—Craig Gay, author of Modern Technology and the Human Future





“MonoThreeism is truly a masterful work that entertains the academy, engages the skeptic, and edifies the church. Let J. D. Lyonhart take you on a journey from the lowest small talk in a bar, to the highest concepts of heaven, to the emotional depths of the soul.”


— Sy Huffer, lead pastor, College Heights Christian Church, Joplin, Missouri





“This fascinating book is the welcome attempt of a fearless young theologian to make the reality of God the Holy Trinity accessible and relevant at a popular level. If God is truly Trinity, and if there is no God ‘back of’ the three divine persons in coinherent communion, who share the divine essence and are equal in honor, and if knowing Jesus by the Spirit means knowing the Father, and if the triune being of God is more than a doctrine but a way of seeing the world and the cosmos, and if the Trinity is truly the center and architectonic of theology and life, then the message of this book is worthwhile, indeed vital, for all humanity. It is both entertaining and enlightening.”


—Ross Hastings, Regent College





“Truly groundbreaking. Lyonhart has put the fundamental meaning of Trinitarian theology into a cohesive package that should be useful to interested skeptics as well as dedicated believers. It perfectly illustrates and illuminates the complexities of the Trinity as well as the Trinity's impact on all of our lives.”


—Cody Graves, lead pastor, First Christian Church, Baxter Springs, Kansas