Thoughtful new candidates for church membership might wonder about it. Skeptical undergraduates are fond of mentioning it. And to the smartly dressed folks who ring your doorbell with complimentary copies of Watchtower and Awake!, it is something of a mantra: "The word 'Trinity' is not in the Bible." And indeed it is not. How, then, did the word ever come to be part of the church's common vocabulary, since the church takes Scripture as the sole source and norm of Christian doctrine?
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1 [ Back ] In this article, Korey D. Maas has quoted from B. B. Warfield, which can be found in the essay "The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity," in B. B. Warfield, Biblical and Theological Studies (Philadelphia: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1968), p. 22.
Korey D. Maas (DPhil, Oxford University), is assistant professor of theology and church history at Concordia University (Irvine, California) and coeditor of Theologia et Apologia: Essays in Reformation Theology and its Defense (Wipf & Stock, 2007).
Issue: "Trinity: God in Three Persons" Nov./Dec. 2003 Vol. 12 No. 6 Page number(s): 22-23,26-28
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