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Book reviews: Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology. Volume 2, The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons

Book reviews: Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology. Volume 2, The Doctrine of the Holy... 1125878 ATR0010.1177/00033286221125878Anglican Theological ReviewBook Reviews book-review2022 Book Reviews Anglican Theological Review 2022, Vol. 104(4) 483 –508 Book reviews © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286221125878 DOI: 10.1177/00033286221125878 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr Systematic Theology. Volume 2, The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons. By Katherine Sonderegger. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2020. xxx+580 pp. $49.00 (hb). There is a courageous confidence that floods the pages of Sonderegger’s systematics, now two volumes and 1,100 pages in. Part of this is sheer scale: there is no rushing this author, as even the projected third volume will still have us exploring the doctrine of God. “We have a delicate task before us, and we should not hurry it,” she advises (p. 38). But there is also a compelling contrariness to her style, as again and again we read of what is popular in contemporary theology, why it is popular, and then how our author is going to argue for the complete opposite. And I for one could rarely help from cheering her on. This is a theologian with no interest in being cool. Examples of this style are many, before we even set aside Volume 1. The first install- ment begins a doctrine http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book reviews: Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology. Volume 2, The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons

Baker, Anthony D.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 104 (4): 3 – Nov 1, 2022
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1125878 ATR0010.1177/00033286221125878Anglican Theological ReviewBook Reviews book-review2022 Book Reviews Anglican Theological Review 2022, Vol. 104(4) 483 –508 Book reviews © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286221125878 DOI: 10.1177/00033286221125878 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr Systematic Theology. Volume 2, The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons. By Katherine Sonderegger. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2020. xxx+580 pp. $49.00 (hb). There is a courageous confidence that floods the pages of Sonderegger’s systematics, now two volumes and 1,100 pages in. Part of this is sheer scale: there is no rushing this author, as even the projected third volume will still have us exploring the doctrine of God. “We have a delicate task before us, and we should not hurry it,” she advises (p. 38). But there is also a compelling contrariness to her style, as again and again we read of what is popular in contemporary theology, why it is popular, and then how our author is going to argue for the complete opposite. And I for one could rarely help from cheering her on. This is a theologian with no interest in being cool. Examples of this style are many, before we even set aside Volume 1. The first install- ment begins a doctrine

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