The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas

by Emery OP, Gilles; Murphy, Francesca Aran

ISBN13: 9780199582211

ISBN10: 0199582211

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2010-05-13

Publisher(s): Oxford University Press

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This is an introduction to Thomas Aquinas' Trinitarian theology as a whole, and an analysis of the treatise of the Trinity within the Summa Theologiae. It is written both for students and beginner readers of the treatise, and for anyone who has dipped into one or two of the questions and realized that they need a general overview of their intellectual context and of the historical debates which lie behind them.

Author Biography

Gilles Emery, OP is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Revelation of the Trinity	p. 7
Revelation, Creation, and Salvation	p. 7
The Revelation of the Trinity through its Works	p. 9
Thomas' Exposition of Speculative Trinitarian Theology	p. 18
Biblical Exegesis and Trinitarian Theology	p. 18
The Aim of Speculative Trinitarian Theology	p. 22
The Prerogatives of the Faith	p. 22
The Rejection of Rationalism	p. 23
Understanding the Faith	p. 26
Why Investigate Notions, Relations, and Properties?	p. 31
The Structure of Thomas' Treatise on the Triune God	p. 36
St Thomas: Various Accounts of the Mystery of the Trinity	p. 36
The Plan of the Trinitarian Treatise in the Summa Theologiae	p. 39
Immanent and Economic Trinity	p. 40
The Essence and the Distinction of Persons: the Common and the 'Proper'	p. 44
The Game Plan of the Treatise on the Trinity	p. 48
The Processions	p. 51
The Word 'Procession'	p. 52
Action, the Source of Relation	p. 53
The Problems of Arianism and of Sabellianism	p. 55
A Procession which is the Generation of the Word	p. 57
A Different Procession, which is that of Love	p. 62
The Order of the Trinitarian Processions	p. 69
The Cycle of the Trinitarian Processions	p. 72
'National' Action	p. 74
Relations	p. 78
Elements of the Patristic Teaching on Relation	p. 79
Real Relations in God	p. 84
The Being of Divine Relations	p. 89
Relative Opposition: Paternity, Filiation, Spiration, and Procession	p. 96
Relative Opposition	p. 96
Paternity, Filiation, Spiration, Procession	p. 99
The Person	p. 103
What is a Person?	p. 104
Person and Analogy	p. 107
Correlations in the Greek and Latin Terminology	p. 111
Subsistent Relations	p. 114
Relation the Heart of Trinitarian Theology	p. 120
Trinitarian Monotheism	p. 128
Personal Plurality in the Triune God	p. 128
The Theological Terminology of Plurality	p. 132
A Transcendental Multiplicity	p. 137
The Consubstantiality of the Persons	p. 141
Person and Essence: A Problem Raised by Joachim of Fiore	p. 145
The Word God	p. 148
The Person of the Father	p. 151
The Name Which Fits Best: Father	p. 153
The Father: Principle and Source	p. 156
The Paternity of the Father: Father of the Son and Father of his Creatures	p. 160
The Analogous Network of the Name 'Father'	p. 160
The Name 'Father': the Person of the Father and the Trinity	p. 163
Unbegottenness: The Unengendered Father	p. 168
From Father to Father	p. 172
The Person of the Son	p. 176
Studying the Personal Property of the Son	p. 176
Studies in the Analogy of the Word: Anthropology and Trinitarian Theology	p. 180
The Son, Word of God	p. 185
The Word, Wisdom, and Splendour of the Father	p. 192
The Word, Creation, and the Economy: the Father Acts through his Son	p. 195
The Word Discloses and Reveals the Father	p. 201
The Son Gives us a Share in his Sonship	p. 204
The Word, Image of the Father	p. 209
Image of the Father, First-Born of Creation	p. 214
The Person of the Holy Spirit	p. 219
The Name 'Holy Spirit'	p. 220
The Holy Spirit is Love in Person	p. 225
The Mutual Love of Father and Son	p. 233
Creative Love: The Universal Operation of the Holy Spirit	p. 245
The Gift of the Father and the Son	p. 249
The Holy Spirit's Gifts to Human Beings	p. 258
The Holy Spirit Proceeds from the Father and from the Son	p. 269
The Doctrinal Weight of the Holy Spirit's Procession a Patre and a Filio	p. 269
Biblical and Patristic Documentation	p. 272
The Terminology: The Spirit 'Proceeds' from the Father and the Son	p. 280
The Councils and the Problem of Adding to the Symbol	p. 282
Theoretical Arguments	p. 285
Distinction by Relative Opposition	p. 285
Love and the Word	p. 286
The Trinitarian Order	p. 288
Balancing Out the Nuances: The Distinction and the Unity of Father and Son	p. 289
The Attitude to the Eastern Orthodox	p. 294
The Reciprocal Interiority of the Divine Persons	p. 298
The Patristic Legacy	p. 298
A Synthesis of Trinitarian Doctrine	p. 302
The Essential Unity of the Three Persons: Consubstantiality	p. 303
Relations	p. 304
Procession	p. 306
Theology and Economy	p. 308
Appropriation	p. 312
The Origins of the Idea of Appropriation	p. 313
The Bases for Appropriation	p. 319
The Analyses of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Albert	p. 319
Thomas' View	p. 322
Disclosing the Persons	p. 326
The Regions in which Appropriation Applies	p. 331
The Advantages and Limitations of Appropriation	p. 336
Trinitarian Creation and Action	p. 338
The Father Creates and Achieves All Things Through his Son and by his Spirit	p. 338
The 'Efficacy' of the Trinitarian Processions	p. 343
The Question of the 'Role Proper' to Each of the Persons	p. 347
The Persons' Distinct Modes of Action and their Unity in Action	p. 349
Trinity and Creation: The Meaning of the Plural	p. 356
The Trinitarian Structure of the Economy	p. 357
Missions	p. 360
Context and Format of the Question about Divine Missions	p. 361
The Theory of Mission	p. 363
Mission	p. 364
Mission, Temporal Procession, and Donation	p. 368
The Person who Sends	p. 370
The 'Invisible' Mission: The Gift of the Spirit and the Son to the Saints	p. 372
Initial Clarifications	p. 373
The Seal of Son and Holy Spirit	p. 375
God's Presence as Known and Loved	p. 379
The Gifts of the Son and Holy Spirit: Two Inseparable and Distinct Missions	p. 387
Experiencing the Divine Persons of Son and Holy Spirit	p. 392
The Image of the Trinity	p. 395
Our Relation to each Divine Person in Grace: Objective Union	p. 402
The 'Visible' Missions of the Son and Holy Spirit	p. 404
Conclusion	p. 413
Bibliography	p. 420
Name Index	p. 433
Subject Index	p. 437
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