Introduces the main people and themes in the history of Trinitarian theology and analyses recent, alternative readings of the tradition.

Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary? Most people think it is not, that we have authority only when there is some defect in us that authority is needed to fill in. This book shows the human importance of authority.

Beginning with the Old Testament background, Hebblethwaite gives an overview of the Christian hope from the time of Jesus to the present day and a robust defence of belief in life after death. The book dialogues with philosophical criticisms down...