Seven "axioms" on the Trinity, the Bible, and theological interpretation. cc: @hains_todd

1. Certain material and social conditions are vital to, but not ultimately sufficient for, theological interpretation of Scripture.

2. The Trinity’s knowledge of the Trinity is the ontological foundation of our knowledge of the Trinity.

3. The Trinity reveals the Trinity by the Trinity; this is the epistemological foundation of our knowledge of the Trinity.

4. The Trinity reveals the Trinity by the Trinity in an economy that is first mediate, in the state of pilgrims, then immediate, in the state of the blessed.

5. The mediate revelation of the Trinity by the Trinity in the economy of grace presupposes and illumines vestiges of the Trinity in the economy of nature.

6. The mediate revelation of the Trinity by the Trinity in the economy of grace comes in a twofold embassy of prophetic and apostolic revelation.

7. The immediate revelation of the Trinity by the Trinity in the economy of glory crowns and perfects all prior revelation of the Trinity and constitutes our supreme and eternal beatitude.

I comment on each of these axioms at the conclusion of a collection of (previously published) essays on the Trinity and exegesis that is, Lord willing, due out later this year from @LexhamPress.

(For those paying attention, I've got the voices of @FredFredSanders and Kate Sonderegger in the back of my brain here.)