The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: The Study of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation 1 Christopher A. Beeley and Mark E. Weedman PART I. TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS I. Scholarship on the Old Testament Roots of Trinitarian Theology: Blind Spots and Blurred Vision 29 Bogdan G. Bucur 1. Observations on the "Monotheism" Affirmed in the New Testament 50 Larry W Hurtado PART 1. JOHN AND THE TRINITY 3. Trinitarian Theology and the Fourth Gospel 71 Harold W.Attridge 4. The Johannine Riddles and Their Place in the Development of Trinitarian Theology 84 PaulN. Anderson 5. The Gospel of John and Early Trinitarian Thought: The Unity of God in John, Irenaeus, and TertuUian 109 Marianne Meye Thompson 6. The Johannine Prologue before Origen 118 Mark J. Edwards 7. Basil of Caesarea on John 1: 1 as an Affirmation of Pro-Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine 132 Mark DelCogliano PART 3. PAUL AND THE TRINITY 8. Paul and the Trinity Stephen E. Fowl 9. Paul and His Legacy to Trinitarian Theology Adela Yarbro Collins 10. The hnage and Unity of God: The Role of Colossians 1 in Theological Controversy Jennifer R. Strawbridge 11. The Spirit and the Letter: 2 Corinthians 3:6 and the Legacy of Origen in Fourth-Century Greek Exegesis Christopher A. Beeley 12. Augustine`s Move from ajohannine to a Pauline Trinitarian Theology MarkE. Weedman