Best treatment of the Trinity?

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thistle93

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Hi! I am looking forward to doing some reading on the Trinity.

While there are probably many to chose from, which single book is the best treatment on the Trinity in you estimation? Can be a book solely on Trinity or one that just touches on it. Prefer reformed authors but would be open to reading others as well if think would be helpful. Thanks!


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I recomend "The Holy Trinity" by Robert Letham. He treats first the biblical foundations of trinitarian theology and then the doctine in church history. Its scope is vast and you'll learn a ton about the trinity you didn't know.
 
Two books: one ancient one modern.

"Of God and Christ" (Popular Patristics) by Gregory of Nazianzus

"The Deep Things of God" by Fred Sanders
 
I started reading The Work of the Trinity in Salvation, Ed. By John Hendryx.

Forgotten Trinity by James White.

I was told The Divine Trinity by Herman Bavinck was good. I have not read it though.

I just started reading Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves.

All these books are on my Kindle, if you have one.
 
just started reading Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves.

Loved that book! And James White's book was the first book on the Trinity I read- good as well!

I'd also highly recommend Bruce Ware's book. Haven't read Letham on the Trinity, but I did like his book on union with Christ!
 
It depends what you're looking for. Richard Muller's Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, IV: The Triunity of God is probably the most enjoyable historical treatment. The chapter on the Trinity in A Puritan Theology is good. B.B. Warfield's The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity is always worth reading. Boethius' The Trinity is One God not Three Gods is a nice, short treatment.
 
Delighting in the Trinity would be a good place to start. Letham's book is a systematic treatment and does give an overview of what scripture, history, and theology have to teach us.
 
Bruce Ware's Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance is the best book to start with on the Trinity. Great read.

If you are going all out then Robert Letham's Holy Trinity is a must.
 
The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being, Three Persons by Thomas F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996). A wonderful book which discusses the doctrine in interaction with the early church fathers. It's also that rare theological book that can be read doxologically, as well.
 
Letham might be a bit heavy, for he gives you a survey of many movements in Roman, Protestant, and Orthodox theology. Gregory Nazianzus is good and is what I started on. MacLeod is good, although a bit more focused on Christology.
 
Letham is comprehensive but good. I second the recommendation of Joel Beeke's treatment in A Puritan Theology. Also beneficial are James Petigru Boyce in his Abstract of Systematic Theology and Charles Hodge in his Systematic Theology.

I'm going to be preaching on the doctrine of the Trinity for the next 2-3 weeks and will be referencing the creeds, confessions, and catechisms regularly. They are invaluable and concise, which means the average person in the pew may actually pick them up!
 
I recomend "The Holy Trinity" by Robert Letham. He treats first the biblical foundations of trinitarian theology and then the doctine in church history. Its scope is vast and you'll learn a ton about the trinity you didn't know.
Yes, Letham is a very good resource.

See also:
Chapter IV, Dogmatic Theology, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Christian Classics books at BibleStudyTools.com

Gerald Bray's The Doctrine of God

When considering the divinity of Christ, there are many heresies related to Trinitarian doctrine. These many heresies related to the Godhead were denounced by the Chalcedonian Definition with respect to the Incarnation, and there is not a single orthodox church, Catholic or Protestant that denies the Chalcedonian Definition. The many heresies so denied by the Chalcedonian Definition can be seen by examining what the Incarnation was not. It was not...

1. a denial that Christ was truly God (Ebionites, Elkasites, Arians);
2. a dissimilar or different substance (anomoios) with the Father (semi-Arianism);
3. a denial that Christ had a genuine human soul (Apollinarians);
4. a denial of a distinct person in the Trinity (Dynamic Monarchianism);
5. God acting merely in the forms of the Son and Spirit (Modalistic Monarchianism/Sabellianism/United Pentecostal Church);
6. a mixture or change when the two natures were united (Eutychianism/Monophysitism);
7. two distinct persons (Nestorianism);
8. a denial of the true humanity of Christ (docetism);
9. that God the Son laid aside all or some of His divine attributes (kenoticism);
10. that there was a communication of the attributes between the divine and human natures (Lutheranism, with respect to the Lord's Supper); and
11. that Jesus existed independently as a human before God entered His body (Adoptionism).
 
The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being, Three Persons by Thomas F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996). A wonderful book which discusses the doctrine in interaction with the early church fathers. It's also that rare theological book that can be read doxologically, as well.
Yes, another excellent resource!
 
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