To a surprising extent, conservative
Protestant philosophers of religion continue to follow the guidance of Thomas Aquinas, the great Aristotelian theologian.
And the book also offers a deliberately wide array
of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic
philosophers of religion, writing from a variety
of theological and communal points
of view» Roman Catholic,
Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role
of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence
of early trinitarian teaching).
Steven Studebaker, associate professor
of systematic and historical theology and the Howard & Shirley Bengal Chair in evangelical thought at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, is planning on including in his
Protestant theologians class John Polkinghorne, physicist and Anglican priest, and Philip Clayton,
philosopher of religion and science.