Invocation and Assent: The Making and Remaking of Trinitarian Theology: The Making and the Remaking of Trinitarian Theology - Softcover

Vickers, Jason E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802862691 ISBN 13: 9780802862693

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008

Synopsis

The adoption of a new rule of faith in the seventeenth century significantly changed the way English-speaking Protestants perceive the doctrine of the Trinity. Having been the proper personal name by which Christians came to know and love their God, the Trinity became primarily a rational construct and as such no longer clearly mattered for salvation. In Invocation and Assent Jason Vickers charts this crucial theological shift, illuminating the origins of indifference to the Trinity found in many quarters of Christianity today.

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Review:

William J. Abraham
Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
"Jason Vickers provides a penetrating and fresh reading of the Trinitarian debates in England in the seventeenth century. This is not simply a matter of accurate theological archaeology; nor is it just a timely reminder of the critical importance of the much-neglected history of English-speaking theology. It also puts on display critical factors that contemporary doctrines of the Trinity must heed. The constructive dimension of this project builds skillfully on the historical and analytical; the lessons that lie in wait for the careful reader are both sobering and bracing."
Stephen A. Seamands
Asbury Theological Seminary
"This insightful, engaging study of English Protestant theology in the seventeenth century helps us to account for the neglect of the doctrine of the Trinity in modern theology something from which most Protestant Christians today are still trying to recover. By carefully recounting this largely unknown story, Jason Vickers has filled an important gap in the history of Trinitarian doctrine and made an important contribution to the current Trinitarian renaissance. Yet"Invocation and Assent"is much more than a historical study. Its greatest value lies in clearly and forcefully reminding us what the ultimate purpose of the doctrine of the Trinity is: not to offer a rational explanation of how God can be three in one, but to enable us in baptism, worship, formation, and mission to personally encounter, know, and love the triune God. That's why this book needs to be read not only by academics but by pastors and Christian leaders everywhere.""

About the Author:

Jason E. Vickers is Associate Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of Minding the Good Ground: A Theology for Church Renewal (2011), Wesley: A Guide for the Perplexed (2009), Invocation and Assent: The Making and Remaking of Trinitarian Theology (2008) and co-editor (with Randy L. Maddox) of The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley (2009). He is also President-elect of the Wesleyan Theological Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0802862691
• ISBN 13: 9780802862693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 235