God, reflection upon God’s life in himself has not been given great prestige in contemporary theology. Such reflections upon the “immanent Trinity”—that is, God’s life in himself—are viewed suspiciously as being prone to speculation that is separated from or opposed to God’s revelation of himself in Jesus Christ. Yet careful consideration of the biblical witness points us back behind the divine economy to its roots in God’s eternal life in himself, from which his movement toward us, in creation and