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Book Review: The Doctrine of the Trinity: God's Being Is in Becoming

hasten to add, however, that this author maintains a greater rapport with that early church than do most of his contemporaries. The contrast between these two paperbacks is very sharp. Selby tries to do justice to the multiple levels and dimensions of faith; Perrin rigorously limits himself to a narrow range of data—the Synoptic Gospels—and to a single problem—the attitudes toward the resurrection as expressed in the redactional work of each Evangelist. For this purpose he assumes the priority of Mark, and puts a magnifying glass over the additions, omissions, and alterations in the later recensions of the Marcan tradition. This method of analysis inevitably leads a scholar to stress the distinctive standpoints rather than the common faith of the Synoptists. It also gives him a license to rely on conjectures in explaining the idiosyncrasies of each editor. The cogency of these conjectures will depend largely on the scholar's prior conception of the Evangelist's provenance and purposes. This reliance makes it dubious whether the analysis of the resurrection traditions represents any independent increment in the penetration of the minds of these ancient editors. Professor Perrin, who died on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, is widely known and highly respected for his work in redaction criticism. Students who are involved in that discipline will readily turn to this book to learn how their mentor applied his technical knowledge in addressing a general lay audience. It is highly moving to read on the first page of this posthumously published work a concise confession of faith: "We live and move and have our being in a world in which Jesus is risen from the dead."