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An Introduction to the Trinity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Introduction to religionPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781139779173
  • 1139779176
  • 1283818019
  • 9781283818018
  • 9780511781209
  • 0511781202
  • 9781139776134
  • 1139776134
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Introduction to the Trinity.DDC classification:
  • 231.044
LOC classification:
  • BT109 .M37 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TRINITY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introducing trinitarian theology; THEOLOGY AND SAPIENTIA; THEOLOGY, DOXOLOGY, AND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE; APPROACHING THE TRINITY -- BETWEEN THE EXTREMES; PARTICIPATING IN GOD -- 'PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE'; CONCLUSION: THE 'REVIVAL' OF TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY?; SUGGESTED READINGS; CHAPTER 2 The Trinity and its scriptural roots; THE TRINITY IN SCRIPTURE?; WORD, WISDOM, AND SPIRIT OF GOD; THE GOD OF ISRAEL -- A LIVING GOD; A RIGHT WAY TO SPEAK ABOUT GOD?
THE FATHER OF JESUS AND THE LOGOS OF GODJESUS: BEARER OF THE SPIRIT; THE ACTION AND IDENTITY OF THE SPIRIT; CONCLUSION: TRIADIC FORMULAE; SUGGESTED READINGS; CHAPTER 3 The doctrine of the Trinity: its emergence and development in the life fo the Christian community; SCRIPTURE, DOCTRINE, AND WORSHIP; ONENESS AND DISTINCTION IN GOD; THE CHALLENGE OF ARIUS AND THE RESPONSE OF NICEA; ARIUS AND CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY; LEARNING FROM THE EAST: THE CAPPADOCIANS; TRINITARIAN MONOTHEISM AND HUMAN COMMUNITY; THE TRINITY IN THE WEST: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO.
CONCLUSION: THE TRIUNE GOD BETWEEN AFFIRMATION AND NEGATIONSUGGESTED READINGS; CHAPTER 4 Theology of the Trinity from Richard of St Victor to the Reformation; RICHARD OF ST VICTOR (D. 1173) AND THE TRINITY AS INTERPERSONAL LOVE; a. Divine unity and the contemplative disposition; b. Plurality of Persons and the order of love; c. Divine plurality and the intricacies of personhood; d. Divine names; e. Evaluation; ST BONAVENTURE (D. 1274) AND A SAPIENTIAL THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; a. Sapiential theology; b. Divine oneness and threeness, simplicity and primacy.
C. The generations of the Son and the procession of the Spiritd. The personal names; e. Theology of the Trinity and spirituality; ST THOMAS AQUINAS (D. 1274) AND THE 'PSYCHOLOGICAL' ANALOGY; a. Introduction; b. Processions; c. Relations; d. Personhood; e. Personal names; JAN VAN RUUSBROEC (1293-1381): THE EBBING AND FLOWING OF THE TRINITY; a. Ruusbroec's trinitarian theology: activity and enjoyable rest; b. The common life; MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546): NEW AVENUES FOR THE THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564): BETWEEN TRADITION AND RENEWAL; SUGGESTED READINGS.
CHAPTER 5 The Trinity from Schleiermacher to the end of the twentieth centuryTHE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE DETRADITIONALISATION OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER (1768-1834) AND THE TURN TO THE SUBJECT; G.W.F. HEGEL (1770-1831): A PHILOSOPHICAL REINTERPRETATION OF THE TRINITY; KARL BARTH (1886-1968): REVELATION AND THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; a. Barth and the nature of theology; b. Trinity and revelation; c. The divine 'Persons'; d. The cross and the Trinity; e. Critique of Barth; KARL RAHNER (1904-84): THE SELF-COMMUNICATION OF THE TRINITARIAN GOD IN US.
Summary: Introduces the main people and themes in the history of Trinitarian theology and analyses recent, alternative readings of the tradition.
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Cover; AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TRINITY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introducing trinitarian theology; THEOLOGY AND SAPIENTIA; THEOLOGY, DOXOLOGY, AND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE; APPROACHING THE TRINITY -- BETWEEN THE EXTREMES; PARTICIPATING IN GOD -- 'PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE'; CONCLUSION: THE 'REVIVAL' OF TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY?; SUGGESTED READINGS; CHAPTER 2 The Trinity and its scriptural roots; THE TRINITY IN SCRIPTURE?; WORD, WISDOM, AND SPIRIT OF GOD; THE GOD OF ISRAEL -- A LIVING GOD; A RIGHT WAY TO SPEAK ABOUT GOD?

THE FATHER OF JESUS AND THE LOGOS OF GODJESUS: BEARER OF THE SPIRIT; THE ACTION AND IDENTITY OF THE SPIRIT; CONCLUSION: TRIADIC FORMULAE; SUGGESTED READINGS; CHAPTER 3 The doctrine of the Trinity: its emergence and development in the life fo the Christian community; SCRIPTURE, DOCTRINE, AND WORSHIP; ONENESS AND DISTINCTION IN GOD; THE CHALLENGE OF ARIUS AND THE RESPONSE OF NICEA; ARIUS AND CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY; LEARNING FROM THE EAST: THE CAPPADOCIANS; TRINITARIAN MONOTHEISM AND HUMAN COMMUNITY; THE TRINITY IN THE WEST: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO.

CONCLUSION: THE TRIUNE GOD BETWEEN AFFIRMATION AND NEGATIONSUGGESTED READINGS; CHAPTER 4 Theology of the Trinity from Richard of St Victor to the Reformation; RICHARD OF ST VICTOR (D. 1173) AND THE TRINITY AS INTERPERSONAL LOVE; a. Divine unity and the contemplative disposition; b. Plurality of Persons and the order of love; c. Divine plurality and the intricacies of personhood; d. Divine names; e. Evaluation; ST BONAVENTURE (D. 1274) AND A SAPIENTIAL THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; a. Sapiential theology; b. Divine oneness and threeness, simplicity and primacy.

C. The generations of the Son and the procession of the Spiritd. The personal names; e. Theology of the Trinity and spirituality; ST THOMAS AQUINAS (D. 1274) AND THE 'PSYCHOLOGICAL' ANALOGY; a. Introduction; b. Processions; c. Relations; d. Personhood; e. Personal names; JAN VAN RUUSBROEC (1293-1381): THE EBBING AND FLOWING OF THE TRINITY; a. Ruusbroec's trinitarian theology: activity and enjoyable rest; b. The common life; MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546): NEW AVENUES FOR THE THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564): BETWEEN TRADITION AND RENEWAL; SUGGESTED READINGS.

CHAPTER 5 The Trinity from Schleiermacher to the end of the twentieth centuryTHE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE DETRADITIONALISATION OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER (1768-1834) AND THE TURN TO THE SUBJECT; G.W.F. HEGEL (1770-1831): A PHILOSOPHICAL REINTERPRETATION OF THE TRINITY; KARL BARTH (1886-1968): REVELATION AND THEOLOGY OF THE TRINITY; a. Barth and the nature of theology; b. Trinity and revelation; c. The divine 'Persons'; d. The cross and the Trinity; e. Critique of Barth; KARL RAHNER (1904-84): THE SELF-COMMUNICATION OF THE TRINITARIAN GOD IN US.

Jürgen moltmann (1926- ): a trinitarian theology of a suffering god.

Introduces the main people and themes in the history of Trinitarian theology and analyses recent, alternative readings of the tradition.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.