As has been observed, Pannenberg’s goal in the Systematics is to argue for the truth claims of Christian teaching in a way that is able to account for the insights of contemporary experience (including and especially a modern scientific framework) and thus to demonstrate the reasonableness of the Christian faith. In particular, Pannenberg’s treatment of the rationality of the Christian faith focuses on the warrants for the Christian doctrine of God as the Trinity. Each treatise following his initial presentation of the doctrine of God, then, takes the form of working out the
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