LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
JOHN W. RAWLINGS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY
Annotated Bibliography
Submitted to Dr. Todd Buck
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of
THEO 626
Doctrine of God
by
Rhonda Wright
May 30, 2021
RESEARCH PROJECT: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Statement of Topic:
The topic I will be researching God in Trinity
Bibliography Information for Resource 1:
Bohn, Einar Duenger. "The Logic of the Trinity." (Springer Link 50, no. 1 2011): 363-74.
A brief statement regarding the author and his/her credentials as an authority:
Einar Duenger Bohn is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Agder, Education. He holds
a PhD.D. from Umass Amherst.
A brief annotation:
This article has discussed the concept of God being three in one and the conflict from the
perception of Modern Society. He argues the problem of the Trinity and how it should be
understood.
A salient or meaningful quote:
"The Catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither
confounding the person or dividing the substance."1
1 Einar Duenger Bohn, “The Logic of the trinity,” (Springer Link 50, no. 1 2011): 363-74.
1
Bibliography Information for Resource 2:
Dolezal, James E. "Trinity, Simplicity and the Status of God's Personal Relations." International Journal of
Systematic Theology 16, no. 1 (2014): 79-87.
A brief statement regarding the author and his/her credentials as an authority
James E. Dolezal is an Associate Professor who teaches Church History, trinitarian theology, and
philosophy, among other things. His place of employment is at Cairn University.
A crisp statement regarding the relevance of this article for your topic
This article has discussed modern philosophers' and theologians within the traditional doctrine of
divine simplicity.
A salient or meaningful quote from the article that you would likely cite if you were to write
an essay on this topic.
"The Key claim of divine simplicity that God is not composed of substance and accidents. The
reason is that accidents determine a subject to some further actuality that does not possess in
virtue of its substance alone."2
Bibliography Information for Resource 3:
Molto, Daniel. "The Logical Problem of the Trinity and the Strong Theory of Relative Identity." (Cross
Mark 56, no. 1 2017): 227-45.
A brief statement regarding the author and his/her credentials as an authority:
Daniel Molto self-discloses that he is a lecture at Sussex. He teaches at the University of York,
Leeds Trinity University, and Birkbeck College. Daniel holds a Ph.D. with a dissertation on
numerical identity.
A brief annotation:
This article focuses on each person of the Trinity as being wholly God. He "considers the
consequences of one tradition in Trinitarian theology."3
2 James E. Dolezal, “Trinity, Simplicity and the Status of God's Personal Relations,” (International Journal of
Systematic Theology 16, no. 1 2014): 79-87.
3 Daniel Molto, “The Logical Problem of the Trinity and the Strong Theory of Relative Identity,” (Cross
Mark 56, no. 1 2017): 227-45.
2
A salient or meaningful quote:
"In recent philosophical theology, various accounts of the doctrine of the Trinity, the claim that
the Christian God is triune (existing in three persons), have tried to steer a middle path between
two heresies."4
Bibliography Information for Resource 4:
Schlesinger, Eugene R. "Trinity, Incarnation and Time: A Restatement of the Doctrine of God in
Conversation with Robert Jenson." (Cambridge University Press 69, no. 2 2016): 189-201.
A brief statement regarding the author and his/her credentials as an authority
"Eugene Schlesinger is Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. The
author of Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism, and several other articles. He was
raised Catholic by Yankee parents in the Protestant South. He experienced an evangelical conversion in a
Baptist setting and began a sojourn among them."5
A crisp statement regarding the relevance of this article for your topic
Eugene engages with the theology of "Robert Jenson concerning the question between the
immanent Trinity and the incarnation. He has taken the initiative to take note of the critiques that
are both wise and misguided. His goal is to recover the classical notions of divine eternity and
simplicity as articulated by Thomas Aquinas."6
A salient or meaningful quote from the article that you would likely cite if you were to write
an essay on this topic.
"The divine eternity, which Jenson winds up terming 'God's time,' embraces and contains within
itself our finite, created time. The true God', writes Jenson, is not eternal because he lacks time,
but because he takes time."7
Bibliography Information for Resource 5:
4 Ibid. 227 pp.
5 Eugene R. Schlesinger, “Trinity, Incarnation and Time: A Restatement of the Doctrine of God in Conversation
with Robert Jenson,” (Cambridge University Press 69, no. 2 2016): 189-201.
6 Ibid. 190 p.
7Ibid. 192 p.
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Westhulzen, Henco Van Der. “The Spirit and Salvation.” (Cross Mark 2020): 1-19.
A brief statement regarding the author and his/her credentials as an authority:
Dr. Henco is a lecture born February 20, 1971 and died February 6, 2017. He lived in South
Africa.
A brief annotation:
This article discusses the answer to the question of how the relationships between the Spirit and
Salvation. He also has argued the significance of how the Trinity and its understanding.
A salient or meaningful quote:
"The Baptism as a change of Lordship', links baptism directly to a theology of the Trinity; the
creative, sustaining, saving, and ennobling God establishes a relation to us through baptism by
guiding us through death into life."8
Bibliography
Bohn, Einar Duenger. "The Logic of the Trinity." (Springer Link 50, no. 1 2011): 363-74.
Dolezal, James E. "Trinity, Simplicity and the Status of God's Personal
Relations." (International Journal of Systematic Theology 16, no. 1 2014): 79-87.
Feinberg, John S. "No-one likes him. The doctrine of God." (Trinity Journal 2001): 879.
Molto, Daniel. "The Logical Problem of the Trinity and the Strong Theory of Relative
Identity." (Cross Mark 56, no. 1 2017): 227-45.
Westhulzen, Henco Van Der. “The Spirit and Salvation.” (Cross Mark 2020): 1-19
8Henco Van Der Westhulzen, “The Spirit and Salvation,” (Cross Mark 2020): 1-19.
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