Wesley Hill | Eerdmans Author Interview Series
Wesley Hill
12.04
23 February 2015
20 August 2025
Wesley Hill is assistant professor of biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and a regular columnist for Christianity Today. His new book Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters gives fresh perspective on Paul's teaching about God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Spirit. http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6964/paul-and-the-trinity.aspx Paul's ways of speaking about God, Jesus, and the Spirit are intricately intertwined: talking about any one of the three, for Paul, implies reference to all of them together. However, much current Pauline scholarship discusses Paul's God-, Christ-, and Spirit-language without reference to trinitarian theology. In contrast to that trend, Wesley Hill argues in this book that later, post-Pauline trinitarian theologies represent a better approach, opening a fresh angle on Paul's earlier talk about God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Spirit. Hill looks critically at certain well-known discussions in the field of New Testament studies those by N. T. Wright, Richard Bauckham, Larry Hurtado, and others in light of patristic and contemporary trinitarian theologies, resulting in an innovative approach to an old set of questions. Adeptly integrating biblical exegesis and historical-systematic theology, Hill's Paul and the Trinity shows how trinitarian theologies illumine interpretive difficulties in a way that more recent theological concepts have failed to do. --- Video Credits Interviewer: Rachel Bomberger Producer, Cinematographer, and Editor: Ahna Ziegler
