Christ and the Cosmos A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Threefold nature of the Divine being
Talking About the Trinity ...........3
Why we may need to restate the ways in which we talk about the trinity ..........6
The doctrine of Divine simplicity ........11
Cosmological and Axiological Explanation ...........18
Divine potentiality and Temporality .........23
2. The biblical Sources of Trinitarian Thought
Three centres of Consciousness?..............33
The synoptic Gospels ..............43
John`s Gospel .........43
The trinity in the Epistles ..............66
The Idea of Incarnation ..............73
3. THe trinity, Immanent and Economic
Why three? ................85
The trinity and revelation ..............92
Hegel and modern theology .......98
THe immanent trinity ........102
The identity of the Immanent and the Economic Trinity ......108
Hegel Again ...............111
What creation adds to the Trinity ..............116
The epistemic priority of the Economic Trinity ...........120
The trinity and naive realism ..............128
The Trinity and the Cosmos ..............133
Revelation and the Immanent Trinity ..........137
4. The social Trinity
Persons and substances ........145
The idea of a Personal and free Creation .......151
The logical Uniqueness of Persons ...........155
THe divine nature and freedom ..........158
Persons as necessarily relational .......171
An ontology of the personal ................176
Intra-Trinitarian love ............184
Divine love and necessity ...........191
Love and Alterity.........199
Trinity versus monotheism ........199
The passion of Christ .......207
God and Abandonment ......211
5. The cosmic Trinity
The doctrine of Perichoresis..........219
The convergence of Social and one-Consciousness models of the trinity .............232
Life-Streams and Persons ..................239
Modalism and Necessity ...........257
The cosmic Trinity ...............263