The Trinity Rediscovering the Central

M. John Farrelly is retired professor of theology at De Sales School of Theology, Washington, D.C.

Preface

xi

Abbreviations

xvii

Chapter 1 The Trinity: The Theological Problematic

1

(30)

I. A Sketch of the Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity

3

(5)

II. Some Earlier Twentieth-Century Theological Reflections on the Trinity

8

(5)

III. Some Later Theological Reflections on the Trinity

13

(18)

Chapter 2 Scripture and the Roots of Christian Belief in the Trinity

31

(38)

I. The Old Testament and Preparation for the Trinitarian Mystery

32

(8)

II. The Ministry of Jesus and the Mystery of the Trinity

40

(4)

III. The Developing Trinitarian Belief of the Apostolic Age

44

(25)

Chapter 3 Soundings in the History of Christian Reflection on the Trinity: To Constantinople I (381)

69

(26)

I. Theological Development before the Fourth Century

72

(7)

II. The Arian Crisis and Its Aftermath (315-381)

79

(16)

Chapter 4 Later Soundings: The Fifth to the Nineteenth Century

95

(30)

I. Major Reflections on the Trinity from Augustine through the Council of Florence (1439)

95

(15)

II. Some Reflections on the Trinity from the Protestant Reformation to the nineteenth Century

110

(15)

Chapter 5 The Trinity's Relation to the Orders of Salvation and Creation

125

(36)

I. The Relation of the Trinity to the Order of Salvation

129

(10)

II. The Relation of the Trinity to Creation

139

(22)

Chapter 6 The Father's Generation of the Son

161

(30)

I. Our Intellectual Knowledge as Analogue for the Father's Generation of the Son

165

(5)

II. A Modification of Thomas's Theology of the Father's Saying of the Word

170

(7)

III. The Critique of the Father-Son Relationship as Patriarchal

177

(14)

Chapter 7 The Procession of the Holy Spirit within the Trinity

191

(28)

I. A Theology of the Holy Spirit in the Economy of Salvation and Creation

193

(8)

II. The Holy Spirit within the Trinity

201

(18)

Chapter 8 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as Three Relational Persons in One Being

219

(32)

I. The Patristic Development of Understanding of the Trinity as Three Persons

221

(5)

II. Thomas Aquinas's Theology of the Three Divine Persons

226

(11)

III. A Modern Sense of Person and the Mystery of the Trinity

237

(14)

Chapter 9 A Trinitarian Spirituality

251

(40)

I. The Trinity's Saving Presence to Us through the Church

252

(11)

II. The Trinity Indwelling the Graced Human Person

263

(7)

III. A Trinitarian Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century

270

(21)

Bibliographical Essays

291

(6)

Index

297

(10)

About the Author

307

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