The Perfectly Simple Triune God : Aquinas and His Legacy /

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A particularly nettlesome question is that around the relationship of the confession of God as a simple yet threefold being--the treatises of the one God and the Trinity. Although God as simple and Triune was widely accepted for over a millennium, simplicity has been widely critiqued and rejected by...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Long, D. Stephen, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thomas, Aquinas, > Saint, > 1225?-1274.
Trinity > History of doctrines > 13th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • part I. Exposition
  • 1. The simple, perfect triune God
  • 2. Authorities for Thomas's traditional answer
  • part II. The ecumenical consensus on the perfectly simple triune God
  • 3. Aquinas's legacy among the reformers
  • Part III. Challenges to the perfectly simple triune God
  • 4. The theodicy question : process theism
  • 5. The question of divine and human freedom : open theism
  • 6. The logical question : analytic theology
  • 7. The cultural and political questions
  • 8. The metaphysical question
  • 9. Conclusion : a retrieval of the traditional answer attending to its critics.

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