The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity

This handbook examines the history of Trinitarian theology and reveals the Nicene unity still at work among Christians today despite ecumenical differences and the variety of theological perspectives. The forty-three chapters are organized into the following seven parts: the Trinity in Scripture, Patristic witnesses to the Trinitarian faith, Medieval appropriations of the Trinitarian faith, the Reformation through to the 20th Century, Trinitarian Dogmatics, the Trinity and Christian life, and Dialogues (addressing ecumenical, interreligious, and cultural interactions). The phrase 'Trinitarian faith' can hardly be understood outside of reference to the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople and to their reception: the doctrine of the Trinity is indissociably connected to the reading of Scripture through the ecclesial and theological traditions. The modern period is characterized especially by the arrival of history, under two principal aspects: 'historical theology' and 'philosophies of history'. In contemporary theology, the principal 'theological loci' are Trinity and creation, Trinity and grace, Trinity and monotheism, Trinity and human life (ethics, society, politics and culture), and more broadly Trinity and history. In all these areas, this handbook offers essays that do justice to the diversity of view points, while also providing, insofar as possible, a coherent ensemble.

1 - The Canonization of Scripture in the Context of Trinitarian Doctrine
2 - The Trinity in the Old Testament
3 - The Trinity in the Letters of St. Paul and Hebrews
4 - The Trinity in the Johannine Literature
5 - The Trinity in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts
6 - Exegesis and the Early Christian Doctrine of the Trinity
7 - The Trinity in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
8 - The Trinity in the Fourth Century Fathers
9 - Augustine on the Trinity
10 - Late Patristic Developments on the Trinity in the East
11 - Trinitarian Theology from Alcuin to Anselm
12 - Scholastic Reasons, Monastic Meditations and Victorine Conciliations: The Question of the Unity and Plurality of God in the 12th Century
13 - Franciscan and Dominican Trinitarian theology (13th Century): Bonaventure and Aquinas
14 - Medieval Trinitarian Theology from the late Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries
15 - The Development of the Trinity Doctrine in Byzantium (9th-15th Centuries)
16 - The Trinity in the Reformers
17 - The Trinity in the Early Modern Era (ca. 1550-1770)
18 - The Trinity in Kant, Hegel, and Schelling
19 - Nineteenth Century Protestant Doctrines of the Trinity
20 - Catholic Theology of the Trinity in the Nineteenth Century
21 - Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Trinity, and Some Protestant Doctrines after Barth
22 - . Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and 20th Century Catholic Currents on the Trinity
23 - Contemporary Orthodox Currents on the Trinity
24 - Trinitarian Theology in the Light of Analytic Philosophy
25 - The Trinity as Christian Teaching
26 - The Divine Person(s): Trinity, Person, and Analogous Naming
27 - A Theology of God the Father
28 - Trinitarian Christology: The Eternal Son
29 - The Deep Things of God: Trinitarian Pneumatology
30 - The Trinity, Creation and Christian Anthropology
31 - The Trinity, the Church, and the Sacraments
32 - Trinity and Salvation: Christian Life as an Existence in the Trinity
33 - The Trinity in Liturgy and Preaching
34 - The Trinity in Christian Visual Arts
35 - The Trinitarian Imprint on the Moral Life
36 - The Trinity and Moral Life: Julian's Trinitarian Logic of Love and Contagion
37 - The Trinity and Prayer
38 - The Trinity and Feminism
39 - Trinity and Politics
40 - Ecumenism and the Doctrine of the Trinity Today
41 - The Doctrine of God in Jewish-Christian Dialogue
42 - The Trinity in Interreligious Dialogues
43 - Globalization, Postmodern Theories of Culture and the Trinity

Gilles Emery, O.P, is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a member of the International Theological Commission, and he is most recently the author of Trinity, Church, and the Human Person; The Trinitarian Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas; and The Trinity: An Introduction to Catholic Doctrine on the Triune God. Matthew Levering is Professor of Theology at the University of Dayton. He has published numerous books, including most recently Biblical Natural Law; The Betrayal of Charity; and Predestination. He is co-editor of the English edition of the quarterly journal Nova et Vetera.