Christ and the Cosmos A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine
- New York Cambridge University Press 2015
- 271p
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