RT Article
T1 Wolfhart Pannenberg's Doctrine of the Trinity
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 43
IS 2
SP 175
OP 206
A1 Olson, R.
LA English
YR 1990
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785567047
AB In the past some of Wolfhart Pannenberg's interpreters have suggested that a major weakness of his revision of the doctrine of God is a neglect of the doctrine of the Trinity. In 1975 Herbert Burhenn criticised Pannenberg for exercising considerable reservation with regard to the three-in-oneness of God and for reducing the trinitarian distinctions of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to temporal distinctions. He also stated that ‘The Trinity cannot function for Pannenberg, as it does for Barth, as a structural principle of theology.’ About a decade later Elizabeth Johnson very cogently noted the need for a well-developed concept of the Trinity in Pannenberg's theology:
DO 10.1017/S0036930600032488