The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God

✍ Scribed by Thomas Joseph White

• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 737
• Series: Thomistic Ressourcement Series; 19
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith. What can we say about the divine nature, and what does it mean to say that God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, three persons who are one in being? In this book, best selling author Thomas Joseph White, OP, examines the development of early Christian reflection on the Trinity, arguing that essential contributions of Patristic theology are preserved and expanded in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. By focusing on Aquinas' theology of the divine nature as well as his treatment of divine personhood, White explores in depth the mystery of Trinitarian monotheism. The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God also engages with influential proposals of modern theologians on major topics such as Trinitarian creation, Incarnation and crucifixion, and presents creative engagements with these topics. Ultimately any theology of the cross is also a theology of the Trinity, and this book seeks to illustrate how the human life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reveal the inner life of God as Trinity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Principles and Disputations: On the Development of Trinitarian Doctrine
1. The Mystery of God: Religious and Philosophical Origins
2. The Problem of God in Modernity
3. The Revelation of the One God in Israel
4. Foundations for Trinitarian Faith in the Life of Jesus Christ
5. Pauline Trinitarian Theology
6. Johannine Trinitarian Theology
7. Nicene Trinitarian Theology
8. The Advent of Orthodoxy: Cappadocian Trinitarian Theology
9. Augustine’s Trinitarian Theology
10. Trinitarian Analogy: Dionysius the Areopagite and the Fourth Lateran Council
Part 2. On the Mystery of the Divine Nature: St. Thomas Aquinas’s De Deo Uno Treatise
11. Analogia Entis within Analogia Fidei: Arguments for God’s Existence
12. Naming God Analogically
13. Divine Simplicity
14. Divine Perfection and Goodness
15. Divine Infinity and Omnipresence
16. Divine Immutability and Impassibility
17. Divine Eternity and Unity
18. Divine Knowledge and Love
19. Divine Omnipotence
20. Knowledge of the Triune God
Part 3. The Immanent Communion of Persons: St. Thomas Aquinas’s De Deo Trino Treatise
21. A Prologue to Thomistic Trinitarian Theology
22. Immanent Processions in God
23. Trinitarian Relations and Notional Names of Persons
24. The Divine Persons
25. God the Father
26. God the Son
27. God the Holy Spirit
28. Perichoresis and Trinitarian Communion
29. Appropriation, Creation, and the Unity of Divine Action
30. The Divine Missions
Part 4. Trinitarian Economy: Creation and Christology
31. Is There Such a Thing as an Economic Trinity? On the Trinitarian Activity of Divine Revelation
32. The Trinity and Creation
33. The Trinity in the Incarnation and Life of Christ
34. The Revelation of the Trinity in the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ
Conclusion: On Being Trinitarian
Selected Bibliography
Index