Enlightenment & Alienation

One of Colin Gunton's early books Enlightenment & Alienation: An essay towards a trinitarian theology has recently been reprinted by wipf & stock publishers. The book has been hard to get a hold of, originally published in 1985, so its good to see it available again. This book marks something of the beginning of Gunton's trinitarian theology. It is a forerunner in a way to his later book: The One, the Three and the Many (1993). The book offers Colin's description of the enlightenment as both a necessary critique of 'modern' christianity and yet also not without its own theological and social problems. The second half of the book arguing for a more robust doctrine of the trinity as a means of overcoming the problems Gunton associated with the enlightenment.