The Triune God Divine Identity & the Power of Gift (THEO 3002) Course Organiser : Prof. John McDowell Semester 1 What is ‘God’ all about? What is God, and how can we speak of God? Where did the doctrine of God as come from, and how did it develop in the churches? In fact, who declared it to be a ‘doctrine’ in the first place? Were there any other conceptions of God in the earliest churches? What does the doctrine of the Trinity have to do with other Christian beliefs, and Christian life and practice? These are a few of the many questions that this course will ask, as it traces the complex development of the Christian doctrine of God through the past 2000 or so years. We will pay attention to what the doctrine does as well as what it ‘means’, especially its significance for the interrelation of Christian identity and practice. We will also pay attention to some challenges of believing in the Triune God today.

Week 1 Who is this ‘God’? Week 2 What is Gospel about the Trinity? Week 3 The 2-Stages of God: C2nd Trinitarianism and the Platonisms Week 4 Making Doctrine: The Cappadocians and the C4th Councils Week 5 The Trinity and the Self: Augustine Week 6 Unspeaking Our Idols: Pseudo-Dionysius’ Apophatic Silence Week 7 One Cause, One Life, One Goal, One Vision: Counting the Fate of ‘God’ in Modernity Week 8 ’s Trinitarian Revival: and Week 9 The Sociality of God: Jürgen Moltmann and Social Trinitarianism Week 10 Conversations about Pluralism and Interfaith Dialogue Week 11 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Kenotic Gospel Week 12 Liberation Theology and the Praxis of Christian Performance Recommended Reading Philip Butin, Trinity Franz Dünzl, A History of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church Timothy George, God the Holy Trinity Stanley J. Grenz, Rediscovering the Triune God Colin Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, The Doctrine of God Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, The Trinity: Global Perspectives Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Trinity and Religious Pluralism J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines Catherine LaCugna, God for Us Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom of God Roger Olsen and Christopher Hall, The Trinity William Placher, The Triune God Basil Studer, Trinity and Incarnation John Thompson, Modern Trinitarian Perspectives T.F. Torrance, The Christian Doctrine of God Miroslav Volf and Michael Welker (eds.), God’s Life in Trinity

Week Date Lecture Topic & Assessment due dates

1 3/03/2009 Introduction & Overview – Who is this God?

2 10/03/2009 What is Gospel about the Trinity?

3 17/03/2009 The 2-Stages of God: C2nd Trinitarianism and the Platonisms

4 24/03/2009 Making Doctrine: The Cappadocians and the C4th Councils

5 31/03/2009 The Trinity and the Self: Augustine

6 7/04/2009 Unspeaking Our Idols: Pseudo-Dionysius’ Apophatic Silence

Semester break

7 21/04/2009 One Cause, One Life, One Goal, One Vision:

Counting the Fate of ‘God’ in Modernity

Essay 1 due by 5pm

8 28/04/2009 Theology’s Trinitarian Revival: Karl Barth and Karl Rahner

9 5/05/2009 The Sociality of God:

Jürgen Moltmann and Social Trinitarianism

10 12/05/2009 Conversations about Pluralism and Interfaith Dialogue

11 19/05/2009 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Kenotic Gospel

12 26/05/2009 Liberation Theology and the Praxis of Christian Performance

Essay 2 due by 5pm

13 2/06/2009 Summing up, Student Presentations and Course Evaluation

Examination period: Tuesday 9 June to Friday 26 June 2008

Weekly Tutorial Reading

1 3/03/2009 Who is this God?

Nicholas Lash, ‘Considering the Trinity’, Modern Theology 2 (1986), 183-196.

Ralph Del Colle, ‘The Triune God’, in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine , ed. Kevin J. Vanhoozer, 121-140.

2 10/03/2009 What is Gospel about the Trinity?

3 17/03/2009 The 2-Stages of God: C2nd Trinitarianism and the Platonisms

Origen, On First Principles , Bk. I.

Origen, in The Early Christian Fathers , ed. Henry Bettenson (OUP, 1956), 230-243.

4 24/03/2009 Making Doctrine: The Cappadocians and the C4th Councils

Ellen Charry, By the Renewing of Your Minds (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), ch. 4

Gregory of Nazianzus’ 5 Theological Orations ( Orations 27-30, 32). – available in • Frederick W. Norris, Faith Gives Fullness to Reasoning: The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzen (Leiden, New York, København, Koln: E.J. Brill, 1991). • OR Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers , Series II, Vol. VII • OR www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/TOC.htm

5 31/03/2009 The Trinity and the Self: Augustine

Augustine, De Trinitate

Ellen Charry, By the Renewing of Your Minds (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), ch. 6.

6 7/04/2009 Unspeaking Our Idols: Pseudo-Dionysius’ Apophatic Silence

Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names .

7 21/04/2009 One Cause, One Life, One Goal, One Vision:

Counting the Fate of ‘God’ in Modernity

William C. Placher, The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking About God Went Wrong (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), 1-17, and ch. 10. 8 28/04/2009 Theology’s Trinitarian Revival: Karl Barth and Karl Rahner

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics I.1 , ch. 2, Pt. 1.

Alan Torrance, ‘The Trinity’, in John Webster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (Cambridge: CUP, 2000), 72-91.

9 5/05/2009 The Sociality of God:

Jürgen Moltmann and Social Trinitarianism

Jürgen Moltmann,

Philip Clayton, ‘Kenotic Trinitarian Panentheism’, Dialog 44.3 (Fall 2005 ), 250-255. Miroslav Volf, ‘“The Trinity is Our Social Programme”: The Doctrine of the Trinity and the Shape of Social Engagement’, Modern Theology 14.3 (1998), 403-423.

10 12/05/2009 Conversations about Pluralism and Interfaith Dialogue

John Hick, ‘Jesus and the World Religions’, in John Hick (ed.), The Myth of God Incarnate , 167-185.

John Hick, ‘The Non-Absoluteness of ’, in John Hick and Paul F. Knitter (eds.), The Myth of Christian Uniqueness , 16-35.

Leslie Newbiggin, ‘Religion for the Marketplace’, in Gavin D’Costa (ed.), Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered: The Myth of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions , ch. 10.

11 19/05/2009 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Kenotic Gospel

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter , 11-14, 23-36, 48-56, 66-71, 79-83, 89 100, 136-140.

Rowan Williams, ‘Balthasar and the Trinity’, in The Cambridge Companion to von Balthasar , ch. 4.

12 26/05/2009 Liberation Theology and the Praxis of Christian Performance

Gustavo Gutierrez, in The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology , ch. 1.

Further Reading von Balthasar, Hans Urs, Mysterium Paschale Barnes, Michael René, ‘Augustine in Contemporary Trinitarian Theology’, Theological Studies 56.2 (1995), 237-250. Barth, Karl, Church Dogmatics, vol. I/1 , trans. G.W. Bromiley (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1975). Bobrinsky, B., The Mystery of the Trinity , trans., A. Gythiel (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Press, 1999). Boff, Leonardo, Holy Trinity, Perfect Community , trans. Phillip Berryman (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000). Boff, Leonardo, Trinity and Society , trans. P. Burns (London: Burns and Oates, 1988). Boughton, L.C., ‘More than Metaphors: Masculine-Gendered Names and the Knowability of God’, The Thomist 58/2 (April 1994), 283-316. Coffey, D., Deus Trinitas. The Doctrine of the Triune God (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Cunningham, David, These Three are One: The Practice of Trinitarian Theology (Oxford: Blackwells, 1998). Davis, Stephen T., Kendall, David, and O’Collins, Gerald (eds.), The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity (New York: OUP, 2000). Edwards D., The God of Evolution. A Trinitarian Theology (New York: Paulist, 1999). Fiddes, Paul S., Participating in God Fox, P ., God as Communion. John Zizioulas, Elizabeth Johnson and the Retrieval of the Symbol of the Triune God (Collegeville: Liturgical, 2001). Gunton, Colin, The One, the Three, and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Gunton, Colin, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology , 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997). Hill, E., The Mystery of the Trinity (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1985). Hill, W., The Three Personed God. The Trinity as a Mystery of Salvation (Washington: Catholic University Press, 1982). Hunt, Anne, The Trinity and the Paschal Mystery (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1997). Hunt, Anne, ‘Pyschological Analogy and the Paschal Mystery in Trinitarian Theology’, Theological Studies 59 (1998), 197-218. Hunt, Anne, What Are They Saying About the Trinity? (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1998). Jenson, Robert, Systematic Theology, vol. 1, The Triune God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Jenson, Robert, The Triune God (N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 1997). Johnson, Elizabeth A., She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Discourse (New York: Crossroad, 1992). Jüngel, Eberhard, God as Mystery of the World. On The Foundation of the Theology of the Crucified One in the dispute between Theism and Atheism , trans., D. Guder (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983). Kasper, Walter, The God of Jesus Christ , trans., M. J. O'Connell (London: SCM, 1984). Kelly, A.J., Trinity of Love. A Theology of the Christian God (Wilmington, Del.: Michael Glazier, 1989). Kimmel, A., (ed.), Speaking the Christian God. The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992). La Cugna, Catherine Mowry, God For Us. The Trinity and Christian Life (New York: Harper San Francisco, 1991). LaCugna, Catherine Mowry, ‘The Trinitarian Mystery of God’, in Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and John P. Galvin (eds.), Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives Volume 1 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, ), 151-191. , ‘Considering the Trinity’, Modern Theology 2 (1986), 183-196. McFague, Sally, Metaphorical Theology. Models of God in Religious Language (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982). Moltmann, Jürgen, The Trinity and the Kingdom of God: The Doctrine of God , trans. Margaret Kohl (London: SCM, 1981). Neuner, J. and Dupuis, J., The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the (London: Collins, 1983). O’Collins, Gerald, The Tripersonal God: Understanding and Interpreting the Trinity (New York: Paulist Press, 1999). O’Donnell, John, The Mystery of the Triune God (London: Sheed and Ward 1988). Olson, Roger, and Hall, Christopher, The Trinity (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2002). Ormerod, Neil, ‘The Psychological Analogy for the Trinity: At Odds with Modernity’, Pacifica 14 (October 2001), 281-294. Pannenberg, Wolfhart, Systematic Theology I (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), 259-448. Peters, Ted, God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993). Placher, William, The Domestication of Transcendence Prestige, G., God in Patristic Thought (London: SPCK, 1952). Shults, LeRon, Reforming the Doctrine of God Rahner, Karl, ‘Remarks on the Dogmatic Treatise “De Trinitate”’, Theological Investigations IV (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1966). Rahner, Karl, The Trinity (New York: Herder and Herder, 1970). Esp. pp. 80-120. Rolnick, P.A., Analogical Possibilities. How Words Refer to God (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993). Soskice, Janet Martin, ‘Trinity and Feminism’, in Susan Frank Parsons (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 135-150. Thompson, John, Modern Trinitarian Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). Torrance, Alan J., Persons in Communion: Trinitarian Description and Human Participation (Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark, 1996). Torrance, T.F., The Trinitarian Faith (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1988). Torrance, T.F., Trinitarian Perspectives Volf, Miroslav, After Our Likeness. The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998). Weinandy, Thomas, The Father's Spirit of Sonship. Reconceiving the Trinity (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1995). Williams, Rowan, ‘Trinity and Revelation’, in On Christian Theology (Oxford: Blackwell). Williams, Rowan, ‘The Nicene Heritage’, in James M. Byrne (ed.), The Christian Understanding of God Today (Dublin: The Columba Press, 1993), 45-48. Zizioulas, John, Being as Communion (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1985). Zizioulas, John, “The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: The Significance of the Cappadocian Contribution” in Trinitarian Theology Today , ed. Christoph Schwöbel (Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark, 1995).

Essay Questions and Reading

IMPORTANT ESSAY WRITING GUIDANCE NOTES 1) Not all the books at any one time may be available – search for others on these issues. • For instance, the library online catalogue can be helpful in searching for other books; • The ATLA Religion Database can aid in identifying articles; • Use the internet sparingly and critically (good for some primary etexts). 2) Carefully read the question – the essays may not be asking what one might expect from a quick glance. 3) The essay has to reflect an appropriate knowledge of the issue(s) and the key figures involved, an ability to critically engage with the main conversation partners, and carefully lucid and evidenced reasoning. 4) At level 1 an essay should use no less than 5 major resources; level 2 a minimum of 7 major pieces of resource; and level 3 a minimum of 10 major pieces of resource. 5) Avoid using ‘I’ in the essay – e.g., ‘I think that…’; ‘it appears to me…’ and so on. 6) Use gender inclusive language – e.g., ‘humanity’, or the like, rather than ‘mankind’ or ‘man’.

ESSAY 1 Ogden, Schubert, The Reality of God and Other Essays (2,000 words) Pailin, David, God and the Processes of Reality Week 7 Pailin, David, Probing the Foundations: A Study in Choose ONE from the following questions: Theistic Reconstruction Sanders, John, A God Who Risks • Evaluate the God-world relationship Surin, Kenneth, ‘Process Theology’ in David Ford (ed.) The Modern Theologians in process theology and compare it Welker, Michael, Creation and Reality with traditional notions of divine Welker, Michael, ‘What is Creation? Rereading transcendence. Genesis 1and 2’, Theology Today Today 48.1 Brown, David, et al (eds.), Process Philosophy and (1991), 56-71 Christian Thought Whitehead, A.N., Process and Reality Clayton, John, The Problem of God in Modern Williams, Rowan, ‘On Being Creatures’, in On Thought Christian Theology Cobb, John, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition • The Doctrine of the creatio ex nihilo Cousins, E.H., Process Theology: Basic Writings is an expression of the grace of the Gunton, Colin, The Triune Creator Triune God. Discuss. Gunton, Colin, Becoming and Being: The Doctrine Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics III/1 (Edinburgh: of God in Charles Hartshorne and Karl T&T Clark, 1957-8), 3-329. Barth David A.S. Fergusson, The Cosmos and the Hartshorne, Charles, Divine Relativity: A Social Creator: An Introduction to the Theology of Conception of God Creation (London: SPCK, 1998), chs. 1-3. Hartshorne, Charles, The Logic Theism Colin Gunton, Christ and Creation (Grand Rapids, Hendry, George S., ‘On Being a Creature’, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1992). Theology Today 38.1 (1981), 60-72 Colin Gunton, The Christian Faith (Oxford: McCabe, Herbert, God Matters , chs 1-2 Blackwell, 2001), Ch.1, ‘Establishing: The Moltmann, Jürgen, God in Creation doctrine of creation’. Colin Gunton, ‘The Doctrine of Creation’ in Colin Barnes, Michael René, ‘Augustine in Gunton (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Trinitarian Theology’, Christian Doctrine (Cambridge: CUP, 1997). Theological Studies 56.2 (1995), 237-250. Colin Gunton, The One, the Three, and the Many: Barnes, Michael René, God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity Charry, Ellen, By the Renewing of Your Minds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University 1993). Press, 1997), ch. 6. Colin Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Gunton, Colin E., The Promise of Trinitarian Theology , 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, Theology 1997). Hart, David Bentley, ‘The Mirror of the Infinite: Colin Gunton, The Triune Creator Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis ’, J.N. Hartt, ‘Creation and Providence’ in Hodgson, in Sarah Coakley (ed.), Re-Thinking Gregory P. and King, R. (eds.) Christian Theology of Nyssa (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2003), (London: SPCK, 1985). 111-131. George S. Hendry, ‘On Being a Creature’, Kelly, J.N.D., Early Christian Doctrines Theology Today 38.1 (1981), 60-72. LaCugna, Catherine, God For Us: The Trinity and Jan Milic Lochman, The Faith We Confess Christian Life (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1985), Ch.6. ‘Maker Moltmann, Jürgen, The Trinity and the Kingdom of of heaven and earth’. God Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition Volume Eastern Church (London: J. Clark, 1957), 1 Ch.5, ‘Created being’. Rahner, Karl, The Trinity Sally McFague, ‘Is God in Charge?’, in William C. Studer, Basil, Trinity and Incarnation Placher (ed.), Essentials of Christian Theology (Louisville and London: WJK, 2003), 101- • “What God is in nature and essence, 116. no man ever yet has discovered or Daniel L. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding can discover” (Gregory of (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), Ch.5, ‘The Nazianzus). Discuss how Gregory good creation’. can be both a Trinitarian theologian Jürgen Moltmann, God in Creation , trans. Margaret Kohl (London: SCM, 1985). and an apophatic theologian. Roman Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Catherine LaCugna, God For Us: The Trinity and Church (London: Chapman, 1994), [also Christian Life found on-line at J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines http://www.christusrex.org/ww1/CDHN/ccc.ht Vladimir Lossky, ‘Apophasis and Trinitarian ml ], Pt.1, Sect.2, Para.1, article 4, ‘The Theology’, in Daniel B. Clendenin (ed.), Creator’. Eastern Orthodox Theology: A Thomas F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith Contemporary Reader , 149-162 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993), ch. 3 ‘The Donald M. MacKinnon, ‘The Inexpressibility of Almighty Creator’. God’, in Themes in Theology Michael Welker, Creation and Reality Anthony Meredith, The Cappadocians (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999). John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: Historical Michael Welker, ‘What is Creation? Rereading Trends and Doctrinal Themes (New York, Genesis 1and 2’, Theology Today 48.1 (1991), 1974) 56-71. Frederick W. Norris, Faith Gives Fullness to Rowan Williams, ‘On Being Creatures’ in On Reasoning: The Five Theological Orations Christian Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, of Gregory of Nazianzen 2000). Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition Volume 1 Basil Studer, Trinity and Incarnation T.F. Torrance, Trinitarian Perspectives Denys Turner, The Darkness of God • Critically Evaluate Augustine’s Denys Turner and Oliver Davies (eds.), psychological model of the Trinity. 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(1983), The Peaceable Kingdom , London: SCM writing about: you should mention it briefly in the Student Presentation introduction, but in the body of the presentaiton you should only bring in the historical background Week 13 to the extent that it helps you interpret more deeply 8-10 mins in length the meanings of the hymn or picture. You should also try to locate the message Take either one ‘religious’ painting suggested by your hymn/picture/book/movie or one hymn or one book or movie against the wider background of possible messages: where, for instance, do the theological ideas from popular culture and describe suggested fit against the background of various different theologies which were explored in class the theological themes (i.e., what it sessions in the semester? However, once again: says about God, and God in relation this broader background is not the subject of your presentation, and should only appear in it to the to the world) suggested by it. extent that it helps you see more clearly and state more fully the particular messages suggested by the

hymn/picture/book/movie you are examining. An important part of this essay is identifying a good picture or hymn to work on. You will need to PLEASE NOTE find something which you think is interesting enough to give you 8 to 10 mins of cogent and • If using a hymn or a picture please succinct presentation on your reflections! The provide handouts of the for all the class most important thing you can do in preparation for members. this reflection is to look very carefully at the • painting or hymn you have chosen. Also provide handouts on the For a hymn, ask yourself questions like the presentation for all the class members. following: does the hymn have a basic theme? What images or metaphors does it use to convey that theme? What does it suggest about the person who sings it? What does it suggest about the nature of God? What does it suggest about the identity and significance of God’s relation to creatures? What kind of theology would someone need to have to make singing this hymn make sense to them? How might the repeated singing of this hymn shape an individual’s or community’s life and ideas? For a picture, ask yourself questions like the following: what is the picture’s main subject matter? What is interesting or distinctive about the way in which that subject matter is presented? How do the details and the background of the picture contribute to its meaning? What position does it put the viewer in? Does the artist use light and shadow to convey something about his subject matter? What is suggested about God’s identity and significance in the picture? What is suggested about his relationship to the viewer? What kind of background knowledge would someone need for this picture to have its full impact? How might seeing this picture every day shape an individual’s or community’s life and ideas? You should try, if possible, to be aware of the historical background of the picture or hymn, but that historical background is not what you are