delighting in the trinity by michael reeves

1 He describes a Father as a person who gives life and demonstrates that God did not give life for the first time when He decided to create, but rather from eternity, God has been life-giving. Reeve’s thesis is that “Before He ever created, before He ever ruled the world, before anything else, this God was a Father loving His Son” (p. He contrasts what he calls the “single-person God” common to all sorts of worldviews from Islam to paganism to Judaism to nominal Christianity, with the unique three-person God of Christianity. The premise of this chapter is the foundation on which Reeves builds his arguments in the subsequent chapters. The question Reeves first asks- What was God doing before creation?-is a doorway into the Trinity that works quite well as a starting point.

Chapter 1: What Was God Doing Before Creation?

Reeves makes a compelling statement in his introduction which he then supports throughout the entire book: “If the Trinity was something we could shave off God, we would not be relieving Him of some irksome weight we would be shearing Him of precisely what is so delightful about Him” (p. Despite the lighter and more personable approach, this book is packed full of profound insights, and its arguments are well-supported by both Scripture and the teachings of some of the great thinkers in church history. Unlike clinical, academic endeavors, this book is about growing in our enjoyment of God and seeing how a proper understanding of His triune nature has a tremendous impact on our view of the world, of reality, and most importantly of God. In his book Delighting in the Trinity, author Michael Reeves sets out to provide a different flavor of commentary than we are used to reading when it comes to literature on in-depth theological topics such as the Trinity.

Delighting in the trinity by michael reeves