Author: Gary W. Deddo

This essay begins by applauding Paul Molnar on shedding light on T. F. Torrance’s importance for ecumenical discourse and contemporary theological debates related to Torrance’s robust and distinctive Trinitarian theology. The author begins by appreciating Molnar for comparing Torrance’s Christology with others’. Molnar decidedly enhances our comprehension by doing so. Molnar’s book provides the breadth and depth needed for this further work to take place. The entire work, though, demonstrates what is particularly and perhaps uniquely meant by theology being Trinitarian. After reading Molnar’s book, readers will have a distinct and compelling view of what Torrance thought being a theologian of the Trinity was all about. Simply put, through the Incarnation, the doctrine of the Trinity does indeed inform every single aspect of dogmatics.

Progress in racial reconciliation among evangelical Christians, especially at the attitudinal level, has been documented and acknowledged. Yet there is the recognition that injustice along racial lines has persisted to a significant degree. It has been suggested by Emerson and Smith in their book Divided by Faith that such persistence is related, at least in part, to certain theological roots of Evangelical belief. This essay explores those roots and shows that a fully Trinitarian theological anthropology addresses and calls them into question and recommends a more faithfully Christian and so Evangelical foundation. More particularly the love for the neighbor embodied in the Person and Work of Christ and rooted in the Trinitarian life revisions both the nature of the problems of racism and racialization and also shows the way forward towards true reconciliation through participation in the accomplished renewal of humanity as neighbors one to another in Jesus Christ.