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Trinity in Process:
A Relational Theology of God
Edited by Joseph A. Bracken and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
New York, Continuum, 1997. 236 pp. $34.95.
One hundred years ago, one might have predicted that at the end of this millennium, theologians would be churning out material on eschatology but that work on the Trinity would have receded. In point of fact, while eschatology may have ushered the new century in, the Trinity seems to be seeing the old millennium out. This collection of essays swells the literature by looking at the doctrine of the Trinity in process perspective. Three essayists (John Cobb, David Griffin, and Lewis Ford) deal with "The Trinity and Classical Whiteheadian Metaphysics," while six consider "The Trinity and Modified Whiteheadian Metaphysics," two emphasizing God as Tripersonal (Gregory Boyd and Joseph Bracken), four focusing on God as One (Philip Clayton, Roland Faber, Majorie Suchocki, and Bernard Lee).
The essayists handle the relation of process to trinitarian thought quite differently. Suchocki, for example, attempts to press Cobb's thought in a trinitarian direction, noting that, both in this volume and elsewhere, Cobb himself does not put the Trinity high on his agenda. Cobb himself argues that...