Where Do We Stand in Trinitarian Theology?

Schwöbel, Christoph

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“…e.g. Kärkkäinen 2009;Schwöbel 1995;Van den Brink 2003) -the traditional Western habit of dealing first with the doctrine of God 'proper' and only subsequently with the Trinity came to be seen as a development that reflected and perpetuated important theological problems. It was Karl Rahner in particular who started to criticise this development, tracing it all the way back to Thomas Aquinas's distinction between the treatises De Deo uno and De Deo trino.…”

Section: On the One And On The Triune God: A Tragic Split?mentioning

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Towards a relevant ecclesiology: An exposition of Articles 27–29 of the Belgic Confession

Dreyer

2023

Reformed Theology in Africa Series

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Peer-review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer-Review of Scholarly Books'. The book proposal form was evaluated by our Theological and Religious Studies editorial board. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer-review before publication by two technical expert reviewers, who did not include the editor(s) and author(s) and were independent of the editor(s) and author(s), with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published. v Research justificationThe Belgic Confession ( 1561) is one of the oldest Reformed confessions and is adopted by many churches in the Reformed tradition around the world. Not much, however, has recently been published on the Belgic Confession as a whole -especially regarding its contemporary relevance. This publication aims to fill this gap.The publication groups the 37 articles of the Belgic Confession together in order to cover the whole of the confession in 12 chapters (alongside an introductory chapter). The emphasis of the publication is on two aspects:(1) providing a scope of contemporary theological, ethical and general issues and possible controversies regarding the content of the Belgic Confession; and (2) formulating ethical perspectives and guidelines from the Belgic Confession that may assist in the building of societies. Where applicable, chapters also discuss the history of the text of the Belgic Confession, the organic unity between the articles of the Belgic Confession, a dogma-historical perspective on the development of the doctrine and content of the Belgic Confession and the relationship between the Belgic Confession and other confessions. The emphasis throughout, however, falls on investigating the contemporary relevance of the Belgic Confession.The various chapters of this volume are written by scholars who are experts in their fields. As such, this volume represents scholarly discourse for scholars. All chapters are original investigations with original results and were cleared of possible plagiarism by using iThenticate. No part of this work has been plagiarised. The findings of this investigation should be beneficial for today's Reformed community around the world. The target audience is specialists in the field of dogma-history and systematic theology.

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Section: On the One And On The Triune God: A Tragic Split?mentioning

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Towards a relevant ecclesiology: An exposition of Articles 27–29 of the Belgic Confession

Dreyer

2023

Reformed Theology in Africa Series

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“…My question is reflected in Schwöbel's recent comment: "If the homoousios is simply taken to mean that Father, Son and Spirit instantiate the same divine essence three times over, without rooting how God is in relation to the world in how God is in God's own being, one has effectively made the doctrine of the Trinity meaningless for understanding the divine economy." 117 My concern is that simplicity, in Holmes' hands, precipitates a reductionist Pauline exegesis.…”

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Paul, the Trinity, and Contemporary Trinitarian Debates

2016

The Pacific Journal of Baptist Research

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The twentieth century" so write Christophe Chalamet and Marc Vial, "can be seen as the century of a rediscovery of trinitarian thought". 1 As they point out, this had led to a number of controversies, including the definition of "personhood" and the relationship between the "economic" and the "immanent" Trinity. But perhaps most importantly, the latest debates concern the claim that this rediscovery presents nothing other than "thoroughgoing departures from the older tradition, rather than revivals of it". This, at least, is the judgment of Stephen Holmes. 2 It is a damning assessment of so-called "social" or "relational" models of the Trinity, which speak of divine ontology in terms of relationality, movement, dance etc., i.e., those that resist "static" notions of Being parsed in terms of a doctrine of divine simplicity. Hence, the recent Counterpoints book, Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity, which gave space for representatives in this debate to discuss matters head on, is an important service to the wider ecclesial and theological community. 3 In this volume, Paul Fiddes presents a defence of the "relational" model of the Trinity, precisely that which Holmes claims is an illegitimate development away from the tradition. 4 In the following I will reflect on a

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Deepened Monotheism. Philosophical Reasoning on the Trinity in Western Early Medieval and Classic Arabic Theology

König¹

2020

Neue Zeitschrift Für Systematische Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie

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SummaryChristian theologians can explain the Trinitarian faith today in dialogue with Islamic thinkers as “deepened monotheism”. Therefore it is important to widen the systematic-theological discourse in an ecumenical and transcultural perspective and to retrieve resources from Western and non-Western traditions of Trinitarian thought (I).In this paper I will first work out historically that the Trinitarian creed of Nicea and Constantinople was originally an ecumenical but non-Western creed (II). Afterwards, I investigate the philosophical-theological reflection on the Trinity by Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) in the context of early interreligious encounters in the Latin West. Based on biblical, augustinian and Greek sources, he developed an approach to understand the mystery of the Trinity by rational arguments as “deepened monotheism” (III). Then I will proceed to explore the philosophical-theological dialogues on the Trinity from the Arabic philosopher and Syrian-orthodox theologian Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī (893–974). Much earlier he developed rational arguments for the Triunity of God with reference to Aristotle. Thereby he answers to anti-trinitarian arguments from Islamic thinkers like al-Kindī and al-Warrāq. He intends that the Trinitarian faith of Christian minorities can thereby be understood and tolerated by Islamic thinkers as rationally founded “deepened monotheism” (IV).In the end I will evaluate what these classics from the Western and non-western traditions of Trinitarian thought contribute to explicate the doctrine of the Trinity today in a pluralistic religious context as “deepened monotheism” (V).

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Where Do We Stand in Trinitarian Theology?

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Towards a relevant ecclesiology: An exposition of Articles 27–29 of the Belgic Confession

Towards a relevant ecclesiology: An exposition of Articles 27–29 of the Belgic Confession

Paul, the Trinity, and Contemporary Trinitarian Debates

Deepened Monotheism. Philosophical Reasoning on the Trinity in Western Early Medieval and Classic Arabic Theology

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