God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life

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Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Religion - 239 pages

Ted Peters brings Trinitarian theology conversation to a new level by examining the works of Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Eberhard Jungel, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Catherine Mowry LaCugna. He highlights talk about the becoming of God by process theologians, sexism in Trinitarian language by feminists, and divine and human community by liberation theologians. Peters addresses the relationship of God's eternity to the world's temporality, and claims that thinking of God as Trinity affirms that the word "God" applies to both eternity and temporality.

 

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Contents

Preface
7
Introducing the Task of Trinity Talk
13
The Immanent Trinity and the Economic Trinity
20
A Map of Contemporary Issues
27
in Trinitarian Discourse?
37
Is Trinitarian Language Hopelessly Sexist?
46
Does Trinity Mean Bomb?
55
Is the Holy Spirit the Mutual Love of Father and Son?
67
Is the Trinity Interreligious?
73
Trinity Talk in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century
81
The Temporal and Eternal Trinity
146
Notes
189
Index
233
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About the author (1993)

Ted Peters is Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Theology and Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He is an ordained Lutheran pastor.

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TitleGod as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life
AuthorTed Peters
PublisherWestminster John Knox Press, 1993
ISBN0664254020, 9780664254025
Length239 pages
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