Russell Almon

Cheryl,
Greetings. My name is Russell Almon. I just recently stumbled onto your blog. My wife and I are both ordained ministers (she is doing her 1st yr chaplaincy residency this year) so women in ministry issues are of concern to us and we went to a seminary (Logsdon Seminary in Abilene, TX) that is favorable to women in ministry. In any case, one of my main academic research areas is in trinitarian theology. I too, am greatly concerned about the doctrine of the “eternal subordination of the Son” that is spread by Ware, Grudem and others in the CBMW. I don’t have time to go into detail but suffice it say that I think their use of the church fathers is spurious at best. While I don’t think that we can all Ware and others total complete Arians (I try to be very careful where I play the heresy card and feel the need to be generous even if they might not be so generous with me) their theology does have some Arian qualities and IMO moves in that direction. I noticed some books listed in a previous post in this thread on helping with understanding the Trinity and subordinationism. I know I’m a late comer here and that this post is a bit old, so I’m not sure who will see it. But I wanted to offer up some other suggestions that may be of use to you or others. First, I recommend anything written by (the now late) Stanley Grenz. Second, I recommend two books by Kevin Giles. The first is called “The Trinity and Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God and the Contemporary Gender Debate” and its follow up “Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity”. In these two books Giles deals with all the issues brought up in this thread and more. I didn’t see them mentioned here so I wanted to mention them just in case you did not know about them.
Shalom