Title
Book Review: Irenaeus on the Trinity
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Title
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Publication Date
2016
School
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of Theology
Abstract
Jackson Lashier argues that previous scholarship has largely done a disservice to Irenaeus of Lyons as a Trinitarian theologian. Most scholars, while acknowledging that Irenaeus' accounts of God's operation in the economy are Triune, posit that he rejected as speculative any account of God divorced from Scripture. And given that the development of the doctrine of the Trinity is understood to be extra-biblical from the standpoint of biblical higher criticism, any attempt to search for Trinitarian theology in Irenaeus' writings is misguided and anachronistic.
Recommended Citation
Hillis, Gregory, "Book Review: Irenaeus on the Trinity" (2016). Theology Faculty Publications and Presentations. 4.
https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/theology_fac_pubs/4