Lampe's stress on the model of God as Spirit immediately raises fundamental questions about our understading of the divinity of Christ, and in so doing also rules out many traditional understandings of the doctrine of God as Trinity. However, it is not an iconoclastic work. Precisely through the perspective which it adopts, it opens up nerw ways of understanding the Christian tradition which may well have more to say to the twentieth century than much that has been handed down from the past,