[Gunton Research Discussion Group] New comment on Introductions.

[Doug Floyd]

Doug Floyd has left a new comment on your post "Introductions":

Not sure if you all still check this post since it's dated 2005, but I just discovered the blog a few weeks ago. My name is Doug Floyd and I've been serving in a variety of minsitries for over 20 years. During that time, I've worked among Baptists, Pentecostals, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Quakers, and Reformed folks.

My formal background is in Rhetoric and Communication Theory. But my practical interest was always in building community and understanding human relationships. This got me to studying engaged in studying the human person.

I tell people that a Jewish Theologian taught me to be a trinitarian. After reading I and Thou, I was convinced relationality had to be within God, so started studying the Trinity. First, I turned eastward learning from the Eastern Orthodox. In the late 90s, I stumbled across Colin Gunton's The One and The Many.

This book helped me piece together a variety of ideas on the breakdown of relations and personhood in the context of our modern dilemna. His applied trinitarianism has been a profound gift to me.

I haven't read anything by Gunton in a few years, but recently I started listening to his lectures on Creation and the Trinity, so I pulled out his book on that topic and have begun reading him again.

This blog is a blessing to me since I function mostly outside the academic world, it gives me an opportunity to easedrop on discussions about Gutnon and answer some question I may have as I wrestle through his ideas.

Blessings to each of you for posting and in all your studies.



Posted by Doug Floyd to Gunton Research Discussion Group at 15.4.07