DELIGHTING IN THE TRINITY
Author MICHAEL REEVES
Publisher IVP ACADEMIC
ISBN 978-0-8308-3983-4
There are two slim volumes by this title. The other is by Tim Chester. It is of great importance that such books are becoming written and available. They are not great theological treatises but attempts to make the truth concerning God relatively accessible to any reader prepared to pin their minds down and albeit slowly follow through page by page. To bring vital understanding to Christians on the vital matter of the nature of God in Three Persons is vital to healthy faith. The fact that IVP Academic published this book should not put any would be reader off. The chapters are helpful and relatively simple in the writers desire to present God as the Trinity of Persons foundational to creation and salvation. Not a God of power only, not a monad, but God as family. Some would say that there are some assumptions made in the effort to show that He is Holy Love, that love is impossible if there is only one person, the ingrown, curved in god would be the result whereas God as Father, as Son and Holy Spirit is the giving God, the God Who joys in creating and saving. The message comes through for sure, not the God distant, examining scrupulously, screening worthiness of the creature but knowing all and working unto salvation so that all is made pleasing both to Him and to the creature itself. There are occasions in the course of these pages where it almost becomes a little too playful even, the attempts at humour and ‘being cool,’ comments about other writers of the past can irritate because the subject is so rich and profound that there is no need to humour the reader. That said, how good for our souls to read and consider God! To savour His Being a Holy Fraternity of Three Persons gladly engaging in the bountiful work of creating, sustaining and saving at such great cost. Perhaps a read of this will provoke to obtain Tim Chester’s book. There are others also, another by Michael Reeves entitled “The Good God.” Surely the more we consider Him, the more we shall be changed into that same image.
