Under the wide umbrella of the Christian faith, there exists a superb divide among essentially alternative ways of wondering key facets of the Christian religion. Eugene Webb explores the resources of that divide, how the japanese and Western Christian worlds drifted aside due either to the several methods they interpreted their symbols and to the several roles political strength performed of their histories. past reports have inquisitive about ancient occasions or at the background of theological rules. In seek of the Triune God delves deeper by means of exploring how the Christian East and the Christian West have conceived the relation among image and experience.

Webb demonstrates that while for Western Christianity dialogue of the doctrine of the Trinity has tended towards hypothesis in regards to the inner constitution of the Godhead, within the japanese culture the symbolism of the Triune God has constantly been heavily attached to non secular event. of their techniques to theology, Western Christianity has tended towards a speculative theology, and jap Christianity towards a paranormal theology.

This distinction of concentration has resulted in a wide variety of basic changes in lots of components not just of theology but in addition of spiritual lifestyles. Webb lines the historical past of the pertinent symbols (God as Father, Son of God, Spirit of God, Messiah, King, etc.) from the Hebrew Bible and New testomony via patristic thinkers and the councils that at last outlined orthodoxy. furthermore, he indicates how the symbols, interpreted throughout the assorted cultural lenses of the East and the West, steadily took on meanings that turned the cloth of very various worldviews, specifically because the respective histories of the japanese and Western Christian worlds led them into other kinds of entanglement with ambition and power.

Through this incisive exploration, Webb deals a dramatic and provocative new photograph of the heritage of Christianity.