Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian TheologyISBN: 978-1-4051-1733-3
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264 pages
May 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Setting the Scene: Theological Ends 12
Chapter 1 Sacra Doctrina: Wisdom, Scripture, and Metaphysics 23
1 Wisdom 28
2 Theologizing as a Wisdom-Exercise 34
3 Isaiah and St. John the Evangelist as Contemplatives 39
Chapter 2 YHWH and Being 47
1 R. Kendall Soulen's Post-Supersessionist Trinitarian Theology 53
2 Aquinas on Being and YHWH 57
Chapter 3 Scripture and Metaphysics in the Theology of God's Knowledge and Will 75
1 Jon D. Levenson on the God of Israel 77
2 St. Thomas Aquinas on the Knowledge and Will of God in His Unity 83
Chapter 4 The Paschal Mystery and Sapiential Theology of the Trinity 110
1 N. T. Wright and Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the Identity of God 112
2 Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Cross as Analog for the Trinity 120
3 The Paschal Mystery as Revelatory of the Trinity in Aquinas 132
Chapter 5 Scripture and the Psychological Analogy for the Trinity 144
1 Aquinas and the Psychological Analogy 149
Chapter 6 Biblical Exegesis and Sapiential Naming of the Divine Persons 165
1 The Person of the Father 169
2 The Person of the Son 179
3 The Person of the Holy Spirit 185
Chapter 7 Essence, Persons, and the Question of Trinitarian Metaphysics 197
1 Trinitarian Ontology in Clarke, Zizioulas, and Hütter 202
2 Trinitarian Ontology and Aquinas's Approach 213
Conclusion 236
Index 242