I agree that the emerging church is attracted to trinitarianism because it emphasizes both relationality and mystery. Perhaps, then, this is more a christological than a trinitarian issue. From my limited perspective, there does seem to be greater interest in the Jesus who can be followed out into the world (not necessarily an over-familiar ‘buddy’ Jesus) than in the Jesus who rules at the right hand of the Father (implicitly through the hierarchy of the church). But I’m not claiming any great expertise here. Todd’s ‘both/and’ point is also well made - that where we locate Jesus on the spectrum between the human and the divine, the mundane and the mysterious, may have a lot to do with where we’re coming from. It reminds us that the development of a theology is never a purely rational process - it is contextual at both ends. Indeed, it should continually reflect and respond to the changing experiences of believers.