Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective

In the first chapter, Sanders stresses the interdisciplinary need to approach Christology and the issue of Jesus's divine and mortal nature in order to achieve a fuller understanding and discredit those who challenge its teaching. The second chapter Horrell appeals to the pre-existence of Jesus before His incarnation and ordered relationality. He believes """"Scripture's record of God's revelation in human history (""""the economic Trinity"""") should inform and control how we think about the eternal relations of the Godhead (""""the immanent Trinity""""). """" This chapter is wordy. The third chapter Fairbairn explores patristic sources and how they have been interpreted today when constructing Christologies of the early church. His love for Cyril is misplaced. DeWeese, in chapter four, philosophically approaches Jesus Christ and His relation to the Trinity and advocates for a view that He had one will, not two. In the fifth chapter, Ware emphasizes the importance of first understating the Trinity to have a complete and consistent view of the Son's salvific work and to seek to answer why God must be three in one for salvation to be effected. This biblical logic highlights that a Fatherless-Christ, one that is seen as separate from Him in both divine unity and in relationship with distinctive roles, is absent from biblical Christianity. This is worth the purchase alone. In the final chapter, Issler's spotlights the humanity of Jesus and two are to emulate His humanity not His…