More than 1,600 years have passed since the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople---yet evangelicals still debate how we are to understand the Trinity. In this scholarly work, Giles challenges the notion of "eternal economic subordination of the Son to the Father" and its application to today's controversy over gender roles and the subordination of women. 256 pages, softcover from Zondervan.
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Reviewed by Timothyy Mills (Lenox, TN), March 27, 2007
I bought this book looking for a sound treatment of the Trinity; what I got was a book for egalitarian feminism in the church.
Giles' biblical exegesis is non-existant, begging the question and making circular arguements.
Giles' called Drs. Giesler and Grudem "heretics" for their positions on the Trinity.
Giles argued against the Greek word "kefhale" as meaning "head," without offering any alternative meaning. He wrote that Kefhale in 1 Cor 11:3 cannot mean "head" in any of it's three uses in the one verse.
The devistating self-confession of the book in the concluding chapter was that God is undivided in the "Immanent Trinity," but in the "Economic trinity" there is a subordination of roles; destroying his own arguement.
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Reviewed by Matt Erickson (Milwaukee, WI), March 22, 2007
Expanding on his earlier work, The Trinity and Subordinationism (IVP, 2002), Giles provides a thorough response to his critics with greater depth and insight. He makes his point strongly from biblical, theological, and historical grounds. If you read any book on the doctrine of the Trinity as it pertains to current debates, this is the one to read.
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