The revival in trinitarian theology during the second half of the twentieth century has brought into clearer focus the notion that God is fundamentally a relational being who exists in a community of mutual love within the three persons of the Trinity. This renewed interest in the Trinity places relationality and love, or God’s loving relational presence, at the center of all theology. In this vein, recent scholarship has argued that God’s relational presence is the “cohesive center” of biblical