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Franz Dünzl gives an account of the formation of the doctrine of the Trinity in a narrative based on contemporary sources: as he remarks in the preface, he wants to describe the human struggle over the truth of the Christian image of God and as far as possible let the early Christians speak for themselves. His main concern is to describe the dynamic of the disputes over the theology of the Trinity in a vivid way which is easy to follow, pointing out the foundations of the doctrine and the decisive shifts in its development. He tries to see the often bitter discussion not as a barren dispute but as an evolutionary process in which the rivalry is a necessary and positive factor in moving the debate forward.
After an introduction to the problem, the book describes the beginning of christology and the first models of the relationship between 'Father' and 'Son': it then describes the controversies leading up to the Council of Nicaea, which are discussed at length, going on to show how Nicaea didn't settle the question and continuing the account up to the Council of Constantinople in 381. It brings out the political influences which governed this second stage of the discussion in an illuminating way. A survey and bibliography round the book off.
- Sales Rank: #591896 in Books
- Published on: 2007-10-30
- Released on: 2007-10-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .35" w x 5.50" l, .30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 162 pages
Review
"Professor Dünzl's book gives a clear and concise account of what one might call the public history of the doctrine of the Trinity. The various tributaries to the development of the doctrine, biblical and philosophical, are lucidly described and clear paths traced through the complex debates of the fourth century. The role of the West and the papacy, often neglected in this context, is given careful attention. It provides an unparalleled introduction to the subject."
Prof Andrew Louth, University of Durham, UK.
'Told with brevity and clarity, but without simplification...[Franz Dunzl] is able to make a difficult subject accessible to a wide readership...[they] help us to understand the Church Fathers and their struggles, and so also share with them in their search for the truth.' (John Binns Church Times)
"It is truly a clear account of the complicated emergence of the Trinitarian doctrine in the Christian tradition. While it is written with the novice theologian in mind, it offers important insights for any theologian interested in Trinitarian theology...This book is highly recommended not only as a textbook for beginners in theology but also for those whose task is to interpret the past to the present." —Catholic Library World (Lucien J. Richard)
"Dunzl's fascinating account"1 July 2009 (Charlotte Methuen Theology)
"This book functions as a handy textbook for the student. Its short and descriptive chapters allow for quick accessibility to information that might otherwise be presented exhaustively in other books on the subject. there is a map of the Mediterranean and a list of references for further reading - perhaps only a glossary is missing, keeping it from being the perfect early history pocketbook to the doctrine of the Trinity." — Michael Jendza, Graduate Theological Union, Anglican Theological Review (Michael Jendza, Graduate Theological Union Anglican Theological Review)
"Dunzl's honest and sobering look at the origins of the Christian faith is essential for critically minded Christians and thinkers."
-Brian M. Doyle, Catholic Books Review
"Professor Dünzl’s book gives a clear and concise account of what one might call the public history of the doctrine of the Trinity. The various tributaries to the development of the doctrine, biblical and philosophical, are lucidly described and clear paths traced through the complex debates of the fourth century. The role of the West and the papacy, often neglected in this context, is given careful attention. It provides an unparalleled introduction to the subject."
Prof Andrew Louth, University of Durham, UK.
'Told with brevity and clarity, but without simplification...[Franz Dunzl] is able to make a difficult subject accessible to a wide readership...[they] help us to understand the Church Fathers and their struggles, and so also share with them in their search for the truth.' (Sanford Lakoff Church Times)
“It is truly a clear account of the complicated emergence of the Trinitarian doctrine in the Christian tradition. While it is written with the novice theologian in mind, it offers important insights for any theologian interested in Trinitarian theology…This book is highly recommended not only as a textbook for beginners in theology but also for those whose task is to interpret the past to the present.” –Catholic Library World (Sanford Lakoff)
"Dunzl's fascinating account"1 July 2009 (Sanford Lakoff Theology)
"This book functions as a handy textbook for the student. Its short and descriptive chapters allow for quick accessibility to information that might otherwise be presented exhaustively in other books on the subject. there is a map of the Mediterranean and a list of references for further reading - perhaps only a glossary is missing, keeping it from being the perfect early history pocketbook to the doctrine of the Trinity." — Michael Jendza, Graduate Theological Union, Anglican Theological Review (Sanford Lakoff Anglican Theological Review)
About the Author
Franz Dünzl is Professor of Early Church History and Patristics at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Professor Andrew Louth is Professor of Patristics in the University of Durham. He was formerly Dean and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, UK.Among his many books are Maximus the Confessor (Routledge) and Dionysius the Arepoagite (Continuum)
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
The Perfect Primer
By Nick Norelli
In this short volume Dünzl certainly accomplished what he set out to do in providing readers with exactly what the title promises, a brief history of the doctrine of the Trinity in the early Church. This work is by no means exhaustive yet the reader will not feel the least bit slighted after having completed it, on the contrary, they will be hungry for more. Designed to serve as an introduction to more in-depth works such as R.P.C. Hanson's The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God or Rowan Williams' Arius: Heresy and Tradition, Dünzl provides us with an exciting recounting of the Nicene era of Church history.
Written in a narrative style Dünzl doesn't bore us with mere fact quoting nor does he bog us down with voluminous quotations from primary (or secondary) sources, but don't let that discourage you, he still manages to handle the issues he speaks on responsibly and with attention to detail. When reading through this little book one senses that he definitely has the (lay)student in mind as nothing is overly technical (only key Greek, Latin, and Hebrew terms are used and they are always transliterated) and everything is easily retain-able (the narrative style helps to inductively instill the information rather than have to rely on rote memorization). This tiny work can (and should certainly) be used pedagogically.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Scholarly-accurate and Concisely-written
By Matthew L. Sutton
This is really a scholarly-accurate, concisely-written book for understanding the development of the doctrine of the Trinity up to the Council of Constantinople in 381. For a translation and a complex historical period, the prose was clear enough for my undergraduate class to understand the major developments of the doctrine of the Trinity in the early church.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Doctrine is the attempt to speak of God faithfully to our culture, but it is limited to the tools that are available
By Adam Shields
Speaking of God is difficult. There is one group of people that believe that God is so Other that we can only talk about what God is not. And they have a point. God is far beyond our comprehension.
But God has revealed himself to us. There is both scripture, which is God speaking in human language through the writing of dozens of God's followers. And then there is Jesus Christ, which was God himself come to earth to reveal God's nature and love to us.
This very helpful book, details the early working out in human language the nature of the Trinity. It is important to remember that what was being done was not creating the Trinity. The Trinity exists independent of human language. But the early church had to figure out a way to speak of the Trinity using human language and philosophy.
A clear theme of this book is misunderstanding. The early church would have spoken a variety of languages. Aramaic, Greek and Latin would have been the most common. But the church rose at a time when the common language was shifting from Greek to Latin. The Eastern parts of the church continued to speak Greek. But by 200-300 most of the Western church was speaking Latin as their native language. Many of the early controversies were about disagreements over minor phrases that were accentuated by the fact that the subtleties of languages do not translate well between languages.
The main issues of the Trinity in the first 400 years of the church were three areas. 1) How to express the Trinity and maintain a concept of Monotheism. Or how is God both three and one at the same time? 2) What does begotten mean? We have in scripture that Jesus Christ is the only begotten. So is he the first creature of creation (and therefore less than God the Father)? 3) Related to the second problem, how are the Father and the Son related to one another? If the Father is the same nature as the Son, then how can Christ be human and if they are different natures that allows Christ to be human and an intermediary between humanity and the Father?
(It is interesting to note that the nature of the Holy Spirit was barely mentioned until around 380.)
These are not simple problems. I will not detail it here, but Dunzl shows that early conceptions of the Trinity did not have the philosophical language that later attempts had. So the language changed in part because the philosophical systems changed. (Dunzl does not touch on this, but this is essentially the same issues with why early church did not talk about the social nature of the Trinity until much later.)
Dunzl also spends a good bit of time talking about how the political events in the Roman Empire also affected the way that the Doctrine of the Trinity were developed as well as the church tensions in the early councils. I very much appreciate Dunzl's time talking about the political and cultural issues around the discussion. Too often we talk about Doctrine absent of culture as if culture did not affect the way we speak of doctrine.
This is not an easy book to read (it is a translation, the book was originally written in German), but it is well worth the struggle to understand the history, theological, political and philosophical issues. Doctrine is the struggle to put in human language our understanding of God. Necessarily that Doctrine is tied to a particular language and culture. We can try to move Doctrine from one culture to another. But apart from a good understanding of how the Doctrine was developed, it is difficult to communicate that doctrine to a new culture.
At this point we are at least 1500 years from the culture of the early church. So our Doctrine, that is trying to faithfully communicate our understanding of God, must use different language (or if it uses similar language, it means slightly different things.) Dunzl does the church a great service in communicating in fairly accessible language the issues of the early church.
I would like to find a similar book that deals with the Trinity of the from 400 to the Reformation. If anyone has a suggestion I would love to hear it.
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