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One God in Three Persons: Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

How do the three persons of the Trinity relate to each other? Evangelicals continue to wrestle with this complex issue and its implications for our understanding of men’s and women’s roles in both the home and the church. Challenging feminist theologies that view the Trinity as a model for evangelical egalitarianism, One God in Three Persons turns to the Bible, church history, philosophy, and...

In recent publications, both Millard Erickson and Tom McCall have offered their respective critiques of what I will here refer to as the “eternal relational authority-submission” (ERAS) understanding of the Trinity (which Erickson labels “gradational authority,” and McCall “eternal functional subordination”). This view holds that
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