Delving further into chapter 3, we find that Gordon Lathrop introduces another paradox: in baptism Christians call upon a God with no name by names. (Two notes here: one, Lathrop seems to be glossing over the Tetragrammaton in the Hebrew Bible, which is given as the proper name of God. In the end, this name only strengthens Lathrop's point, as the name means something like "He Who Is" and is, in effect, a way of not answering the question of "What is God's name?". Two, Lathrop fails to point out that two of the names in the Trinity, "Father" and "Son", only make sense in relation to each other and not in any absolute sense, while the third, "Holy Spirit", doesn't tell us even as much as the term "god" does.) This paradox is at the core of the baptismal process, as it culminates in a bath in the Triune name.
