Important Modern (English Language) Books about the Trinity
Here I’m following up on my recent post about the doctrine of the Trinity. I’m often asked to recommend books about Christian doctrinal themes, so here is my list of “favorite books” about the Trinity. I’m limiting the list to English language (some are translations) and published within the last century. The focus of the list is on even more recent publications. I am dividing the list into two categories: primary works and secondary works. Primary works are ones that focus on the Trinity and secondary works are those that focus on other theologians’ ideas about the Trinity. Feel free to recommend others. (I am consciously excluding from my list works I consider heretical such as Norman Pittenger’s The Divine Triunity—which is based on process thought.) I have put an asterisk beside the one book in each list that I think you should read if you can only read one. (Of course, out of sheer humility I avoided “asterisking” my own!)
Primary:
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics I/1 and IV/1
Leonardo Boff, The Trinity and Society
David Brown, The Divine Trinity
Stanley J. Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self
Leonard Hodgson, The Doctrine of the Trinity
Robert Jenson, The Triune Identity
Eberhard Jüngel, God as the Mystery of the World
*Walter Kasper, The God of Jesus Christ
Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God for Us
Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom
A. Okechukwu Ogbonnaya, On Communitarian Divinity
Karl Rahner, The Trinity
Cyril Richardson, The Doctrine of the Trinity
Claude Welch, In This Name
Secondary:
Chung-Hyun Baik, The Holy Trinity—God for God and God for Us
Bertrand de Margerie, The Christian Trinity in History
Stanley J. Grenz, Rediscovering the Triune God
Colin E. Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology
William J. Hill, The Three-Personed God
Eberhard Jüngel, The Doctrine of the Trinity (God’s Being Is in Becoming)
Roger E. Olson and Christopher Hall, The Trinity
*Ted Peters, God as Trinity
John Thompson, Modern Trinitarian Perspectives
Peter Toon and James D. Spiceland, One God in Trinity
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