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THE TRINITY STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Volume 24 The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. THE TRINITY East/West Dialogue Edited by MELVILLE Y. STEWART The University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, U.S.A. RICHARD SWINBURNE introduction EUGENE GRUSHETSKY XENIA GRUSHETSKY translators SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-90-481-6475-2 ISBN 978-94-017-0393-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0393-2 Translated from the French language by Fiachra Long, Maurice BlondeI: Oeuvres completes. tome II, © PUF, 1997. With kind permission ofPresses Universitaires de France (PUF), Paris, France Coverart: The Icon of the HoIy Trinity, Andrei Rublev, ca. 1410 Printed on acidlree paper An Rights Reserved © 2003 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2003 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1s t edition 2003 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.. To my loving wife, Donna Mae TABLE OF CONTENTS Diagrams & Tables ..................................................... .ix Contributors ............................................................... xi Preface ........................................................................ x vii 1. Introduction Richard Swinburne ............................................................... 1 2. Greeting Alexei II .......................................................................... 3 3. The Revelation of God as Trinity Metropolitan Filaret. ........................................................... 5 4. Modern Anglo-American Philosophy of Religion Richard Swinburne ............................................................ 13 5. The Trinitarian Dilemma Dale Tuggy ..................................................................... 23 6. Perichoretic Monotheism Stephen T. Davis ............................................................... 35 7. Trinitarian Willing and Salvific Initiatives Melville Y. Stewart ............................................................5 3 8. The Trinity and Personal Identity Peter Forrest. ................................................................... 75 9. Three Persons in One Being Peter van Inwagen ............................................................. 83 10. The Elements ofTriadology in the New Testament Archimandrite Januariy (lvliev) .............................................. 99 Vll viii CONTENTS 11. The Trinitarian Teaching of St. Gregory Nazianzen Hilarion Alfeyev ............................................................. 10 7 12. St. Augustine's Doctrine of the Trinity in the Light of Orthodox Triadology of the Fourth Century Alexei Fokin .................................................................. 131 13. Word and Trinity Eleanore Stump ............................................................... 153 14. The Trinity and Natural Reason Charles Taliaferro ............................................................ 167 15. The Holy Trinity and Non-Christian Triades Vladimir Shokhin ............................................................ 179 16. The Dogma of the Trinity and Its Social-Political Implications Alexander Kyrlezhev ......................................................... 189 17. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity in the Culture and Art of Ancient Russia Michael Gromov .............................................................. 195 18. A Triadological Perspective of Church Mission in the Twenty First Century Vladimir Fedorov ............................................................ 207 19. The Holy Trinity: Paradigm of the Human Person Kallistos Ware ................................................................2 27 20. Glossary of Terms ....................................................... 239 21. Index ... ; .................................................................... 245 DIAGRAMS & TABLES DIAGRAMS Dale Tuggy's "The Trinitarian Dilemma" Famous Trinitarian Diagram p.29 Stephen T. Davis' "Perichoretic Monotheism" Trinitarian Analogies-States A, B, and C p.45 Michael Gromov's "The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity in the Culture and Art of Ancient Russia" The Holy Trinity (1411) of Andrei Rublev p.200 TABLES Alexei Fokin's "St. Augustine's Doctrine of the Trinity in the Light of Orthodox Triadology of the Fourth Century" Table of Analogies p. 142-143 ix CONTRIBUTORS ALEXEI II, Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia. HILARION ALFEYEV received his initial education in music at the Moscow Gnessins School and the Moscow State Conservatory. After military service (1984-86) he entered the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was tonsured a monk (June 19), ordained deacon (June 21) and ordained priest (August 19) during the same year. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary (1989) and from the Moscow Theological Academy (1991). From 1991-1993 he taught at the Moscow Theological Schools. He completed his doctoral thesis on 'St Simeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition' (1995) at Oxford University under Bishop Kallistos Ware. From 1995-2001 he served as Secretary for Inter-Christian Affairs of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. December 27, 2001 he was elected Bishop, and on January 14, 2002, consecrated by His Holiness Alexei ll, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. He served as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Sourozh in Great Britain until his nomination (July 17, 2002) as Head of the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church to European Institutions. Bishop Hilarion is author of 10 books in Russian, English and French, and of about 150 other scholarly publications. He also holds a doctorate in theology from St Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. STEPHEN T. DAVIS is Russel K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. He was educated at Whitworth College (B.A.), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D.). He writes mainly in the areas of the philosophy of religion and Christian thought. He has published over sixty articles and thirteen books, including: Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection (Eerdmans, 1993); God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs (Edinburgh University Press, 1997), and (ed.) Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy (Westminster John Knox Press, 2nd ed., 2001). ARCHPRIEST VLADIMIR FEDOROV (Ph.D.) lectured for 25 years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary and Academy in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). At present, he is Director of the Orthodox Institute of Missiology and Ecumenism and Vice-rector of the Russian Christian Institute of Humanities in St. Petersburg and Consultant on the Ecumenical Theological Education Program in the World Council of Churches. He is a member of the X1