Faith Matters: Theology for Church and World

In an earlier book, Gordon Watson gave a very powerful, but not uncritical, account of Karl Barth's doctrine of the Trinity, and the central role to which he restored it in the teaching of the church. In Faith Matters he gives more attention to the liturgical or doxological issues in the worship, life and mission of the church. Dr. Watson begins with a rigorous discussion of the Being and Self-disclosure of the Trinity from the perspective of the Holy Spirit, and then offers a careful account of the distinctive character of Barth's epoch-making interpretation of St Anselm's Fides Quarens Intellectum and Cur Deus Homo. His purpose is to clarify Barth's theological method, with particular respect to the procession of the Holy Spirit, and the divergence between Eastern and Western churches over it.