ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with some brief remarks about the enterprise of 'analytic theology', against which Kevin Hart's essay raises a few passing objections. Hart states that it "must be noted" that the Reformers themselves disagree with one another on matters of scriptural interpretation, often as it relates to the formation of doctrine. The chapter focuses on the criticisms offered by John Bishop, Hart and Nick Trakakis. Trakakis notes that the Church Fathers used analogies only with great caution and were always dissatisfied with the analogies they offered in their own explanations of trinitarian doctrine. Moreover, and more importantly, the mystery of the Trinity is hardly exhausted by the puzzle of how three divine persons could be one God. The account of the Trinity at best solves a puzzle that for many serves as an obstacle to belief. It leaves the more interesting mysteries wholly untouched and still within the realm of the mysterious.
