The Trinity and Contextualization

Abstract

(can also download directly from http://www.berith.org/pdf/Trinity_Contextualization.pdf)In this brief paper, we wish to consider the question of whether or not the early church employed a method that might be called contextualization in its formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity. First, we must ask what contextualization means. Then, we will be able to investigate the process by which the church formulated its doctrine to see if it might be legitimately called “contextualization.”