Rev. ed. of: The Holy Trinity : understanding God's life. 2012.

Includes bibliographical references ( pages [201]-221) and indexes.

'The history that God is': studying the doctrine of the Trinity in the twenty-first century -- 'In your light, we see light': the Trinity in the Bible -- 'Always with him are his word and wisdom': early patristic developments in the doctrine of the Trinity -- 'From the ousia of the father': the fourth-century debates 1 -- 'The Godhead is by nature simple': the fourth-century debates 2 -- 'Understood by a few saints and holy persons': the west and Augustine -- Interlude: the harvest of patristic Trinitarianism -- 'Distinction in the persons but unity in the nature': the Medieval doctrine of the Trinity -- 'By the testimonies of the scriptures or by manifest reason': anti-trinitarianism from the reformation to the eighteenth century -- 'A transformation which will go back to its very beginnings': the doctrine of the Trinity since 1800.