The Triune God

by Lonergan, Bernard; Shields, Michael G.; Doran, Robert M.; Monsour, H. Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780802099679
• ISBN10: 080209967X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-06
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Buried for more than forty years in a Latin text written for seminarian students at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan's 1964 masterpiece of systematic-theological writing, De Deo trino: Pars systematica , is only now being published in an edition that includes the original Latin along with an exact and literal translation. De Deo trino , or The Triune God , is the third great installment on one particular strand in trinitarian theology, namely, the tradition that appeals to a psychological analogy for understanding trinitarian processions and relations.The analogy dates back to St Augustine but was significantly developed by St Thomas Aquinas. Lonergan advances it to a new level of sophistication by rooting it in his own highly nuanced cognitional theory and in his early position on decision and love. Suggestions for a further development of the analogy appear in Lonergan's late work, but these cannot be understood and implemented without working through this volume. This is truly one of the great masterpieces in the history of systematic theology, perhaps even the greatest of all time.