Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 296
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-9787-1167-9 • Hardback • July 2020 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-9787-1168-6 • eBook • July 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Daniel Lloyd is associate professor in the Philosophy, Theology, and Religion Department at Saint Leo University.
Chapter 1: Philosophic Approaches to Divine Transcendence and Negative Theology
Chapter 2: Novatian’s Transcendent God
Chapter 3: Revelation and Theological Epistemology
Chapter 4: The One and Eternal Father
Chapter 5: The Development of Word Christology
Chapter 6: Arguments for the Son’s Divinity
Chapter 7: The Son as Ontologically Subordinate
Despite the significance of Novatian for our understanding of early Latin Christianity, excellent studies of his thought are few and far between. Daniel Lloyd offers the best study in years, working from Novatian’s philosophical context to arrive at a compelling account of Novatian’s conception of divine transcendence, theological epistemology, and the relationship between Father and Son. — Anthony Briggman, Candler School of Theology
In this book, Daniel Lloyd offers a fresh reading of Novatian’s Trinitarian theology. Breaking out of the unhelpful ruts of earlier scholarship, which judged Novatian by the standards of later centuries, Lloyd reads Novatian’s On the Trinity according to its own logic, in the context of second and early third century thought, and with a deep and helpful knowledge of Novatian’s various philosophical and theological sources. Lloyd’s careful analysis reveals neither a tidy pre-Nicene orthodoxy nor a pre-“Arian” heresy, but rather a sophisticated, ontological subordinationism between the transcendent and invisible Father and the immanent and visible Son. Lloyd’s work therefore is a needed reevaluation of Novatian and an important contribution to the growing field of Latin Trinitarian Theology in the early centuries.
— Jackson Lashier, Southwestern College