The Trinity and the Bible

To write on the Trinity is to enter a minefield of presuppositions-presuppositions of theology exegesis grammar logic philosophy etc. However at the heart of God?s self-revelation in the Bible is God's tri-unity that God is three Father Son and Holy Spirit. Confessional Christians would identify this claim that God is Triune as a necessary condition of true Christian faith. To be Christian is to follow Christ who is the 2nd person of the Trinity. Yet does following this Christ mean following the 2nd hypostasis who is eternally begotten of the Father sharing with him his ousia? That is a more difficult question isn't it? Indeed many faithful men and women in my life could not make heads or tails of the latter claim while worshipping and following the Christ of the former. So what does it mean to be Trinitarian? This book is about that question what does it mean to be a Christian who worships a triune God to be ?Trinitarian?? Is the Trinity a doctrine arrived at through second-order reflection on the Biblical data several hundred years after the canon closed or is it something else? Is it perhaps a presupposition about the reality of God that has shaped the Christain imagination that has shaped the framework Christians bring to the world throughout created history?