to substantive doctrinal ones thus fail to grasp the Bible’s main subject matter.14 Corroborating this (re)new(ed)15 methodological approach is an increased historical awareness that the church’s great dogmas, including the doctrine of the Trinity, originated not as a consequence of a priori theological reflection but instead as interpretative principles, principles that were derived from a believing engagement with Scripture.16 Indeed, Augustine traces his understanding of the Trinity to ‘all the