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Book Review: Modern Physics and Ancient Faith

Trinity). Pannenberg sees these two as coinciding eschatologically. It is only in the eschaton that the economic Trinity will be identical with the immanent Trinity. Again, M. insists, this claim about God is to be understood on the basis of the principle of retroactive permanence. The essence of God established in the eschaton will have been God's essence all along. Pannenberg is not simply making a claim about our knowledge of the Trinity. He is making a claim about the divine being, about ontology. God's eternal trinitarian being is established retroactively from the point where eternity and time meet. M. seems able to accept Pannenberg's thought here, but I admit to still finding some difficulty in embracing the idea that God's trinitarian being is constituted retroactively from the eschaton. M. engages not only with Pannenberg, but also with his critics. By and large he defends Pannenberg against all comers, but he admits that there are gaps and problems in Pannenberg's thought, and that it is still too early to tell whether his ideas about the priority of the future will prove to be the beginning of a paradigm shift. M. succeeds in communicating the energy, insight, and depth of Pannenberg's thought. He takes his readers by clear and systematic steps into the very center of Pannenberg's theology of God. This is an excellent book, highly recommended to all seeking to understand the thought of a leading figure in contemporary theology.