Trinity
An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199246120
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 07/02/2002
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.5 cm
This interdisciplinary study is the result of an international and ecumenical meeting of nineteen scholars held in New York at Easter 1998: the Trinity Summit. Biblical experts examine the scriptural roots of trinitarian doctrine, patristic scholars correct those who continue to misinterpret the trinitarian teaching of the Cappadocians and Augustine, and five scholars examine systematic and foundational issues like the viability of social models for the Trinity. The volume ends with a study of the Trinity in art and the challenge of preaching the Trinity today. The international reputation of the participants reflects and guarantees the high quality of this joint work.
1. The Holy Trinity: The State of the Questions ; 2. Jesus' Self-Designation 'The Son of Man' and the Origins of his Deification ; 3. Paul and the Trinity: The Experience of Christ and the Spirit for Paul's Understanding of God ; 4. 'Two Powers in Heaven' and Early Christian Trinitarian Thinking ; 5. Ousia and Hypostasis: The Cappadocian 'Settlement' and the Theology of 'One Hypostasis' ; 6. 'Persons' in the 'Social' Doctrine of the Trinity: A Critique of Current Analytic Discussion ; 7. Rereading Augustine's Theology of the Trinity ; 8. Substance and the Trinity ; 9. Anti Social Trinitarianism ; 10. John Hick on Incarnation and Trinity ; 11. Trinitarian Speculation and the Forms of Divine Disclosure ; 12. Trinitarian Theology as Participation ; 13. The Trinity in Art ; 14. Preaching on the Trinity: A Preliminary Investigation
"The first section of this collection contains three remarkable essays which show that dialogue between systematic theologians and biblical scholars is possible and important."--Natalie K. Watson, Reviews in Religion and Theology"The Trinity, a collection of essays gathered from a seminar in the USA, shows 14 distinguished scholars, American and European, wrestling hard with the history and appropriate present expression of Trinitarian doctrine. Most familiar, perhaps to Anglican readers will be Sarah Coakely, now at Harvard, who writes a highly technical piece on Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian thought; Gerry O'Collins, who writes a characteristically clear opening chapter setting out past and present problems in the area of Trinitarian reflection; and David Brown, who sets a number of artistic representations of the Trinity in their social, artistic and philosophical context ... a text for specialists, or, at least, for students reading theology, and for ordinands in training."-- Dr John Davies, Church Times, 22/9/00.