Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introducing trinitarian theology
- 2 The Trinity and its scriptural roots
- 3 The doctrine of the Trinity: its emergence and development in the life of the Christian community
- 4 Theology of the Trinity from Richard of St Victor to the Reformation
- 5 The Trinity from Schleiermacher to the end of the twentieth century
- 6 Contemporary trinitarian theology: problems and perspectives
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
6 - Contemporary trinitarian theology: problems and perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introducing trinitarian theology
- 2 The Trinity and its scriptural roots
- 3 The doctrine of the Trinity: its emergence and development in the life of the Christian community
- 4 Theology of the Trinity from Richard of St Victor to the Reformation
- 5 The Trinity from Schleiermacher to the end of the twentieth century
- 6 Contemporary trinitarian theology: problems and perspectives
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
Summary
TRINITARIAN ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL IMAGE OF GOD
In the previous chapter we dealt with Jürgen Moltmann's innovative theology of a suffering God. In this discussion it became clear how Lutheran and Hegelian elements led to a critique of traditional understandings of God, especially the traditional view on divine impassibility, and the way the created world relates to God.
Within contemporary theology Moltmann has probably done most to develop a social and political trinitarian theology, and it is this important contribution we take up at the outset of this chapter. The reader will recall that trinitarian tradition has, in effect, left us two models or analogies for the Trinity, namely, the social and the psychological model. By social we mean a focus on the Trinity as a community of persons and the anthropological and political ramifications of the doctrine – a trinitarian orthopraxis. The ‘psychological analogy’, on the other hand, associated initially with Augustine and later developed by Aquinas, is based on the doctrine of the imago Dei – the human person made in the triune God's image and likeness (Gen. 1:26–7). Augustine, as we have seen, found a reflection of the Trinity in the individual human person, specifically in the human mind and heart.
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- An Introduction to the Trinity , pp. 201 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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