The Three-Personed God: The Trinity As a Mystery of Salvation

749 Pages·1982·1.84 MB·English

The Three-personed God : The Trinity As a
title:
Mystery of Salvation
author: Hill, William J.
publisher: Catholic University of America Press
isbn10 | asin: 0813206766
print isbn13: 9780813206769
ebook isbn13: 9780813210322
language: English
subject Trinity.
publication date: 1982
lcc: BT111.2.H54 1982eb
ddc: 231/.044
subject: Trinity.
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The Three-Personed God
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Batter my heart, Three-Personed God
John Donne
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
Christopher Fry:
A Sleep of Prisoners
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The Three-Personed God
The Trinity as a Mystery of Salvation
William J. Hill
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Copyright © 1982
The Catholic University of America Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Reprinted in paper covers 1988
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING
IN PUBLICATION DATA
Hill, William J., 1924
The three-personed God.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Trinity. I. Title.
BT111.2.H54 231'.044 81-18012
ISBN 0-8132-0560-3 AACR2
0-8132-0676-6 (pbk.)
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part One 1
Background: Theology Listening to the Past
One. Religious Experience: New Testament Matrix of the 3
Trinity
Old Testament Ambiance 4
Yahweh as Father of the Elect 4
Dabar and Ruah Yahweh 5
New Testament Symbols Implying a Second in God 6
Son of God 6
Logos 10
Son of Man 12
Kyrios 14
Some Subordinationist Texts 16
New Testament Symbols Implying a Third in God 17
Pneuma 18
Paraclete 20
A Covert Symbol for a Third in God: Shekinah Yahweh 23
Retrospect: An Emerging Trinitarianism in Function of 26
Developing Christologies
Two. Hellenization: The Trinity in the Greek Fathers 29
Economic Trinitarianism: Justin Martyr 30
Monarchial Trinitarianism: Tertullian 34
Subordinationism: Origen 37
Beginnings of Triunity: Athanasius 41
Orthodox Trinitarianism: The Cappadocian Settlement 47
Retrospect: The Emergence of Dogma 50
Three. Medieval Science: The Trinity of the Theologians 53
Cryptomodalism in the West: Augustine and the 53
Concept of Relation
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The Ontological Trinity 54
The Analogical Trinity 55
The Anagogical Trinity 57
The Inner-Divine Trinity 59
Metaphysics of Notional Act: Aquinas 62
Three Methodological Considerations 62
Relation: Beyond Psychology to Ontology 69
Relation as Constitutive of Person 71
Relation as Grounded in Knowing-Loving 73
Love as Societal: The Influence of Richard of St. Victor 78
Part Two 81
Foreground: Theology Speaking in the Present
Four. The Trinity of Religious Symbolism: The God of 83
Liberalism
The Speculative Trinity: Friedrich Schleiermacher 84
The Trinity as Cognitive Symbol: Paul Tillich 91
The Trinitarian Symbol as Paradox: Cyril Richardson 101
and Others
Summary 106
Five. Neo-Modal Trinitarianism: The Uni-personal God of 111
Three Eternal Modes of Being
The Trinity as Modes of Divine Self-Manifestation: 113
Karl Barth
The Trinity of Temporal Unsurpassability: Robert 124
Jenson
The Trinity as Three Relations of One Personhood: 128
Claude Welch
The Thomist Trinity after Kant: Karl Rahner 130
Neo-Modalism: John Macquarrie 146
Six. Neo-Economic Trinitarianism: The Eternal God of 149
History
History as Triadic: The Hegelian Heritage 150
The Trinity as Event of Divine Freedom: Wolfhart 155
Pannenberg
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The Trinity as Event of the Cross: Jürgen Moltmann 166
The Trinity as God's Concrete Being-in-Revelation: 175
Gordon Kaufman
Catholic Neo-Economic Trinitarianism: Piet 178
Schoonenberg
Seven. The Trinity of Creative Becoming: The God of 185
Panentheism
God as Dyad, not Triad: Alfred North Whitehead 186
The Trinity as God's Social Relations to the World: 190
Charles Hartshorne
Spirit as God's Universal Immanence to the World 192
The Word as God's Special Aims for Christ: Schubert 196
Ogden and John Cobb, Jr.
An Integral Process Trinitarianism: Lewis S. Ford 203
The Trinity as Process in Catholic Thought: Walter 208
Stokes and Anthony Kelly
Eight. The Trinity as Community: The God of an 217
Interpersonal Koinonia
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The Social Model of the Trinity: William Hasker 217
God as Three Consciousnesses: Joseph Bracken 218
The Trinity as Community of Love: Richard Of St. 225
Victor