Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas an the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology

<p>Acknowledgments ix</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>1 Setting the Scene: Theological Ends 12</p>
<p>Chapter 1 Sacra Doctrina: Wisdom, Scripture, and Metaphysics 23</p>
<p>1 Wisdom 28</p>
<p>2 Theologizing as a Wisdom–Exercise 34</p>
<p>3 Isaiah and St. John the Evangelist as Contemplatives 39</p>
<p>Chapter 2 YHWH and Being 47</p>
<p>1 R. Kendall Soulen′s Post–Supersessionist Trinitarian Theology 53</p>
<p>2 Aquinas on Being and YHWH 57</p>
<p>Chapter 3 Scripture and Metaphysics in the Theology of God′s Knowledge and Will 75</p>
<p>1 Jon D. Levenson on the God of Israel 77</p>
<p>2 St. Thomas Aquinas on the Knowledge and Will of God in His Unity 83</p>
<p>Chapter 4 The Paschal Mystery and Sapiential Theology of the Trinity 110</p>
<p>1 N. T. Wright and Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the Identity of God 112</p>
<p>2 Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Cross as Analog for the Trinity 120</p>
<p>3 The Paschal Mystery as Revelatory of the Trinity in Aquinas 132</p>
<p>Chapter 5 Scripture and the Psychological Analogy for the Trinity 144</p>
<p>1 Aquinas and the Psychological Analogy 149</p>
<p>Chapter 6 Biblical Exegesis and Sapiential Naming of the Divine Persons 165</p>
<p>1 The Person of the Father 169</p>
<p>2 The Person of the Son 179</p>
<p>3 The Person of the Holy Spirit 185</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Essence, Persons, and the Question of Trinitarian Metaphysics 197</p>
<p>1 Trinitarian Ontology in Clarke, Zizioulas, and H&uuml;tter 202</p>
<p>2 Trinitarian Ontology and Aquinas′s Approach 213</p>
<p>Conclusion 236</p>
<p>Index 242</p>