Scripture And Metaphysics: Aquinas An The Renewal Of Trinitarian Theology

• Bridges the gap between scriptural and metaphysical approaches to biblical narratives.
  
• Retrieves Aquinas’s understanding of theology as contemplative wisdom.
  
• Structured around Aquinas’s treatise on the triune God in his ‘Summa Theologiae’.
  
• Argues that intellectual contemplation is part of a broader spiritual journey towards a better understanding of God.
  
• Contributes to the current resurgence of Thomistic theology in both Protestant and Catholic circles.

Introduction.

1 Setting the Scene: Theological Ends.

Chapter 1 Sacra Doctrina: Wisdom, Scripture, and Metaphysics.

1 Wisdom.

2 Theologizing as a Wisdom-Exercise.

3 Isaiah and St. John the Evangelist as Contemplatives.

Chapter 2 YHWH and Being.

1 R.Kendall Soulen’s Post-Supersessionist Trinitarian Theology.

2 Aquinas on Being and YHWH.

Chapter 3 Scripture and Metaphysics in the Theology of God’s Knowledge and Will.

1 Jon D. Levenson on the God of Israel.

2 St. Thomas Aquinas on the Knowledge and Will of God in His Unity.

Chapter 4 The Paschal Mystery and Speculative Theology of the Trinity.

1 N. T. Wright and Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the Identity of God.

2 Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Cross as Analogue for the Trinity.

3 The Paschal Mystery as Revelatory of the Trinity in Aquinas.

Chapter 5 Scripture and the Psychological Analogy for the Trinity.

1 Aquinas and the Psychological Analogy.

Chapter 6 Biblical Exegesis and Speculative Naming of the Divine Persons.

1 The Person of the Father: Witherington & Ice and Aquinas.

2 The Person of the Son.

3 The Person of the Holy Spirit.

Chapter 7 Essence, Persons, and the Question of Trinitarian Metaphysics.

1 Trinitarian Ontology in Clarke, Zizioulas, and Hütter.

2 Trinitarian Ontology and Aquinas’s Approach.

Conclusion.

Index