Contents
Preface
1. Introducing the Task of Trinity Talk The Trinity Talk Task
Some Misleading Assumptions
The Beyond and the Intimate
The Immanent Trinity and the Economic Trinity
Future Directions for Trinity Talk
2. A Map of Contemporary Issues
Is the Doctrine of the Trinity Outmoded? Is the Trinity Tied to Substantialist Metaphysics?
How Should 'Person' Be Used in Trinitarian Discourse?
Are Christians Monotheists?
To Whom Should We Pray?
Is Trinitarian Language Hopelessly Sexist?
Does "Trinity" Mean Bomb?
What Really Was Going On with Arius?
What About Filioque?
Is the Holy Spirit the Mutual Love of Father and Son?
Can the Orthodox East and the Latin West Agree?
Is the Trinity Interreligious?
3. Trinity Talk in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century
Claude Welch's Forecast:
There's a Barth in Our Future
Eberhard Jüngel and the
Principle of Correspondence
Karl Rahner and Rahner's Rule
Jürgen Moltmann's Open Trinity
Leonardo Boff's Divine Society
Process Theism and Two Makes Three
Catherine Mowry LaCugna's "God for Us"
Robert Jenson's Triune Identity
Wolfhart Pannenberg and Dependent Divinity
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
4. The Temporal and Eternal Trinity
What Is Eternity?
What Is Time?
Past, Present, and Future: The Human Perspective
Time in Special Relativity Theory
Time's Arrow in Thermodynamics
Time's Edge in Quantum Creation
Eternity as the Whole of Time
Temporal Holism
Tracing Our Trajectory
Trinitarian Theses
Notes
Index
