God As Trinity

by Peters, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780664254025
• ISBN10: 0664254020
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Ted Peters brings Trinitarian theology conversation to a new level by examining the works of Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Eberhard Jungel, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Catherine Mowry LaCugna. He highlights talk about the becoming of God by process theologians, sexism in Trinitarian language by feminists, and divine and human community by liberation theologians. Peters addresses the relationship of God's eternity to the world's temporality, and claims that thinking of God as Trinity affirms that the word "God" applies to both eternity and temporality.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introducing the Task of Trinity Talk	p. 13
The Trinity Talk Task	p. 14
Some Misleading Assumptions	p. 16
The Beyond and the Intimate	p. 18
The Immanent Trinity and the Economic Trinity	p. 20
Future Directions for Trinity Talk	p. 24
A Map of Contemporary Issues	p. 27
Is the Doctrine of the Trinity Outmoded?	p. 27
Is the Trinity Tied to Substantialist Metaphysics?	p. 30
How Should 'Person' Be Used in Trinitarian Discourse?	p. 34
Are Christians Monotheists?	p. 37
To Whom Should We Pray?	p. 42
Is Trinitarian Language Hopelessly Sexist?	p. 46
Does "Trinity" Mean Bomb?	p. 55
What Really Was Going On with Arius?	p. 59
What About Filioque?	p. 63
Is the Holy Spirit the Mutual Love of Father and Son?	p. 67
Can the Orthodox East and the Latin West Agree?	p. 71
Is the Trinity Interreligious?	p. 73
Trinity Talk in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century	p. 81
Claude Welch's Forecast: There's a Barth in Our Future	p. 82
Eberhard Jungel and the Principle of Correspondence	p. 90
Karl Rahner and Rahner's Rule	p. 96
Jurgen Moltmann's Open Trinity	p. 103
Leonardo Boffs Divine Society	p. 110
Process Theism and Two Makes Three	p. 114
Catherine Mowry LaCugna's "God for Us"	p. 122
Robert Jenson's Triune Identity	p. 128
Wolfhart Pannenberg and Dependent Divinity	p. 135
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?	p. 142
The Temporal and Eternal Trinity	p. 146
What Is Eternity?	p. 147
What Is Time?	p. 149
Past, Present, and Future: The Human Perspective	p. 151
Time in Special Relativity Theory	p. 155
Time's Arrow in Thermodynamics	p. 159
Time's Edge in Quantum Creation	p. 163
Eternity as the Whole of Time	p. 166
Temporal Holism	p. 168
Tracing Our Trajectory	p. 170
Trinitarian Theses	p. 173
Notes	p. 189
Index	p. 233
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