b'THEOLOGYare not a proper basis for understanding gender roles. Trinity Without Hierarchy is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the current debate over the relationship between Trinitarian theology and the roles of men and women.This new collection of Trinitarian studies is theo-logicallysensitive,biblicallyattuned,andhistori-cally concerned. Everyone interested in the future of Trinitarian theology within evangelical Protestantism will find this book a good and encouraging guide.Lewis Ayres, Durham University and Australian Catholic UniversityMichael F. Bird (PhD, University of Queensland) is academic dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College. His other pub-lications include Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction.Scott Harrower (PhD, Trinity International University) is lec-turer in Christian thought at Ridley College. His other publi-cations include Trinitarian Self and Salvation.CONTENTS1.Sonship, Sending, and Subordination in the Gospel of John (Adesola Akala)2.Trinity Without Taxis? A Reconsideration of 1Corinthians 11 (Madison N. Pierce)3.What Does Father Mean? Trinity Without Tiers in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Amy Peeler)4.The Trinitarian Dynamic in the Book of Revelation (Ian Paul)5.No Son, No Father: Athanasius and the Mutuality of Divine Personhood (Peter J. Leithart) 6.Beholding the Beholder: Precision and Mystery in Gregory of Nyssas Ad Ablabium (Amy Brown Hughes)7.Dominium naturale et oeconomicum: Authority and the Trinity TRINITY WITHOUT HIERARCHY (Tyler R. Wittman)8. He Humbled Himself: Trinity, Covenant, and the Gracious Reclaiming Nicene Orthodoxy in Evangelical Theology Condescension of the Son in John Owen (T. Robert Baylor)9.Protestant Scholastics on Trinity and Persons (Jeff Fisher)MICHAEL F. BIRD AND SCOTT HARROWER 10.There Is a Method to the Madness: On Christological Commitments of Eternal Functional Subordination of the 978-0-8254-4462-3$25.99 Son (Jules A. Martnez-Olivieri)Paperback6 x 9344 pages 11.Pannenberg: The Submission of the Son and the Heartbeat of Christian Theology / Systematic Divine Love (John McClean)Kregel Academic 12.Classical Trinitarianism and Eternal Functional Rights: World Subordination: Some Historical and Dogmatic Reflections Available (Stephen R. Holmes)13.The Trinity Without Tiers: A Response to the Eternal Subordination/Submissiveness of the Son Debate (Graham In response to some complementarian theologians who assertCole)that the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father, the contrib- 14.The Presence of the Triune God: Persons, Essence, and utors to Trinity Without Hierarchy contend that this view mis- Equality (James R. Gordon)construes the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and reduces15.Bruce Wares Trinitarian Methodology (Scott Harrower)16.The Intergenerational Impact of Theological Beliefs (Scott the Son to a lower level of glory and majesty than the Father.Harrower)Surveying Scripture, church history, and theology, sixteen con-tributors present a defense of the full and equal authority of all three members of the Trinity while critiquing approaches that border on semi-Arianism. In particular, the creedal confes-sions of Nicaea are upheld as the historical standard by which any proposed Trinitarian doctrine should be judged.While some contributors hold complementarian and oth-ers egalitarian viewpoints, all agree that Trinitarian relations kregel.com/academic5'