Ebook: Christ and the Cosmos: A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine

The concept of the ‘social Trinity’, which posits three conscious subjects
in God, radically revised the traditional Christian idea of the Creator. It
promoted a view of God as a passionate, creative, and responsive source
of all being. Keith Ward argues that social Trinitarian thinking threatens
the unity of God, however, and that this new view of God does not
require a ‘social’ component. Expanding on the work of such theologians
as Barth and Rahner, who insisted that there was only one mind of God,
Ward offers a coherent, wholly monotheistic interpretation of the Trinity.
Christ and the Cosmos analyses theistic belief in a scientific context, demonstrating
the necessity of cosmology to theological thinking that is often
overly myopic and anthropomorphic. This important volume will benefit
those who seek to understand what the Trinity is, why it matters, and how
it fits into a scientific account of the universe.