Paths to the Triune God: An Encounter Between Aquinas and Recent Theologies

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: Why Aquinas Today? Reason and Creation in Theology and Faith: The Rational Way to God The Contemporary Relevance of Natural Theology 12 The Role of Reason and Creation in Theology and Faith 16 A Trinitarian Theology of Creation 26 Aquinas`s Theology of Reason and Creation for Today 39 The Implicit Salvation of Non-Christians: The Moral Way to God The Debate on the Salvation of Non-Christians 51 Dialectic of Implicit and Explicit Faith 5 5 The Principle of Difference in Saving Providence 63 Dialectic of Nature and Grace in the Moral Act 66 A Sacramental Theology of Religions: The Religious Way to God A Christological, Trinitarian Theology of Salvation 76 Mediation of Salvation through Solidarity, Ecclesiality, and Sacramentality 91 Toward a Sacramental Theology of Religions 100 Predestination, Reprobation, Justice 109 Theology as Contemplative Wisdom: The Contemplative Way to God 131 The Debate on Theory and Praxis in Theology 131 Theology as Wisdom 136 Theology as Theory/Contemplation 144 Ambiguity of Theological Intellectualism 157 Contemplating the Triune God: The Beginning and End of All Things 168 Human Knowledge of the Triune God 168 An Ontology of the Triune God 175 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 192 Three Persons in Relation 210 The Missions of the Triune God 234 Contemporary Trinitarian Discussions in Light of Aquinas 239 The Problem of Metaphysical Language 240 The Grammar of Trinitarian Language 245 The Problem of Sexist Language 249 Social Trinitarianism on the Unity and Trinity in God 258 A Critique of Social Trinitarianism in Light of Aquinas 279 Toward a Dialectic of Prophetic and Sapiential Theology: A Postcritical Retrieval of Aquinas 307 Dialectic of Suspicion and Retrieval 307 The State of Contemporary Theology 310 Two Types of Theology: Prophetic and Sapiential 320 Toward a Dialectic of Prophetic and Sapiential Theology 330