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New Approaches to Religion and Power Series editor: Joerg Rieger While the relationship of religion and power is a perennial topic, it only continues to grow in importance and scope in our increasingly globalized and diverse world. Religion, on a global scale, has openly joined power struggles, often in support of the powers that be. But at the same time, religion has made major contributions to resistance movements. In this context, current methods in the study of religion and theology have created a deeper awareness of the issue of power: critical theory, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, and class studies are contributing to a new quality of study in the field. This series is a place for both studies of particular problems in the relation between religion and power as well as for more general interpretations of this relation. It undergirds the growing recognition that religion can no longer be studied without the study of power. Series editor: Joerg Riegeris Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology in the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Titles: No Longer the Same: Religious Others and the Liberation of Christian Theology David R. Brockman The Subject, Capitalism, and Religion: Horizons of Hope in Complex Societies Jung Mo Sung Imaging Religion in Film: The Politics of Nostalgia M. Gail Hamner Spaces of Modern Theology: Geography and Power in Schleiermacher’s World Steven R. Jungkeit Transcending Greedy Money: Interreligious Solidarity for Just Relations Ulrich Duchrow and Franz J. Hinkelammert Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue: On Social Construction and Freedom Cynthia R. Nielsen Lenin, Religion, and Theology Roland Boer In Search of God’s Power in Broken Bodies: A Theology of Maum Hwa-Young Chong The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies: Models for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Thia Cooper Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and Rosemary Carbine Religion, Theology, and Class Edited by Joerg Rieger Messianism against Christology: Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, and Empire James W. Perkinson Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking Santiago Slabodsky Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations: God Embodied Meredith Minister Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations God Embodied Meredith Minister TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY AND POWER RELATIONS Copyright © Meredith Minister, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-46477-4 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49935-9 ISBN 978-1-137-46478-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137464781 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Minister, Meredith, 1983– Trinitarian theology and power relations : God embodied / by Meredith Minister. pages cm.—(New approaches to religion and power) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Trinity—History of doctrines. 2. Materialism—Religious aspects— Christianity. I. Title. BT109.M5175 2014 231(cid:25).044—dc23 2014035644 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of my grandfather, J.K. Cooper, who frequently disagreed with what I had to say and encouraged me to say it anyway. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Trinitarian Theologies and the Elision of Material Bodies 1 1 Possibilities of a Material Trinitarian Theology 17 2 Knowing the Trinity: Augustine’s Material Epistemology in The Trinity 39 3 Desiring Divine and Human Bodies in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s The Flowing Light of the Godhead 63 4 Trinitarian Politics in Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel 85 5 Following the Cracks of Trinitarian Theology 109 6 Epistemology, Ontology, Ethics, and Politics of the Material Trinity 133 Conclusion: The Terms of Trinitarian Theology 157 Notes 169 Bibliography 199 Index 219 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments First and foremost, this project would not have been pos- sible without my husband and colleague, Kevin Minister, who patiently listened as I worked through new ideas, chal- lenged me when my arguments were unclear, oriented me to relevant research, edited the manuscript during every phase of the writing, and made countless dinners. Both his family and my family have offered encouragement and support from afar. While my family has supported me at every stage of the project, the book has traveled with me as I have moved from Dallas, TX, to Winfield, KS, and then to Owensboro, KY. The institutions that I have been affiliated with through these moves have given me space to develop the project, and the people at these institutions have given me support and encour- agement and offered invaluable insights not only on the details of the manuscript but on the writing process and the balances between work and life as well as writing, teaching, and serving. In particular, the early stages of the project were influenced by the faculty and my GPRS colleagues at Southern Methodist University while later stages have been influenced by my colleagues and students at Southwestern College in Winfield, KS, and, more recently, by my colleagues and students at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Southwestern College gave me the intellectual space to turn the beginnings of this project into an early version of the final manuscript while my students at Kentucky Wesleyan have been particularly supportive and understanding as I have finished the manuscript with a heavy teaching load. All or parts of the manuscript have benefited from the advice, conversa- tion, and feedback I have received from Karen Baker-Fletcher, John Badley, Sarah Bloesch, Jessica Boon, Joey Connelly, Roger Gardner, Catherine Keller, Julie Mavity Maddalena, and Joerg Rieger.

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