Philosophia Christi

Volume 18, Issue 2, 2016

Symposium on the Trinity in Modern Context

A Medieval Approach to Keith Ward’s Christ and the Cosmos
A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine

In Christ and the Cosmos Keith Ward hopes to “reformulate” the conciliar statements of the Trinity and Incarnation since they cannot serve our post-Enlightenment, scientific age. I dispute Ward’s motivation, noting that the differences in perspective to which he points may not be as radical as he supposes. And his “reformulation” has worrisome consequences. I am especially concerned at his point that Jesus, while very special and perfectly good, is only human. This undermines free will theodicy, and, much more troubling, makes global Christian practice for two millennia idolatry.