SIMPLY GOD
Recovering the classical Trinity
By Peter Sanlon
IVP. 240 pages. £11.99
ISBN 978 1 783 591 046
Peter Sanlon’s Simply God is an ambitious book. It is ambitious because in a book market saturated with populist volumes it addresses the doctrine of God and the idea of his simplicity in particular. In doing so Sanlon seeks to demonstrate why the understanding of God found in the classical theological tradition is important. It is a task in which he largely succeeds.
At the heart of Sanlon’s enterprise is an attempt to restore an appreciation of God in the splendour of his majesty. In order to do so we must cease to think of God as a grown-up version of humanity and think of him as ‘radically other’. As such he is the God who can only be known through his self-revelation.
