If «the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity» as Karl Rahner said then what difference
does it make for how we read the Bible? This book takes up the discussion that has dominated
the last several decades of Trinitarian theology - that of Rahner's Rule - and brings it into
dialogue with the longer history of the doctrine particularly with the history of
interpretation of scripture. The history of Trinitarianism is the history of complex
interpretive moves a long conversation in which the Christian church has sought to learn how
to ask the right questions of scripture. Surveying recent theological projects and learning
from their successes and failures The Image of the Immanent Trinity argues that the eternally
perfect fellowship of Father Son and Spirit is truly present for our salvation in Christ who
as the image of the invisible God secures God's presence in the economy of salvation as the
image of the immanent Trinity.
