| Abbreviations | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Introducing trinitarian theology | p. 1 |
| Theology and sapientia | p. 2 |
| Theology, doxology, and the limits of language | p. 5 |
| Approaching the Trinity - between the extremes | p. 16 |
| Participating in God - 'partakers of the divine nature' | p. 18 |
| Conclusion: the 'revival' of trinitarian theology? | p. 24 |
| The Trinity and its scriptural roots | p. 29 |
| The Trinity in Scripture? | p. 29 |
| Word, Wisdom, and Spirit of God | p. 30 |
| The God of Israel - a living God | p. 34 |
| A right way to speak about God? | p. 37 |
| The Father of Jesus and the Logos of God | p. 41 |
| Jesus: bearer of the Spirit | p. 43 |
| The action and identity of the Spirit | p. 46 |
| Conclusion: triadic formulae | p. 49 |
| The doctrine of the Trinity: its emergence and development in the life of the Christian community | p. 52 |
| Scripture, doctrine, and worship | p. 52 |
| Oneness and distinction in God | p. 58 |
| The challenge of Arius and the response of Nicea | p. 62 |
| Arius and contemporary theology | p. 66 |
| Learning from the East: the Cappadocians | p. 69 |
| Trinitarian monotheism and human community | p. 79 |
| The Trinity in the West: Augustine of Hippo | p. 83 |
| Conclusion: the triune God between affirmation and negation | p. 92 |
| Theology of the Trinity from Richard of St Victor to the Reformation | p. 96 |
| Richard of St Victor (d. 1173) and the Trinity as interpersonal love | p. 97 |
| St Bonaventure (d. 1274) and a sapiential theology of the Trinity | p. 105 |
| St Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) and the 'psychological' analogy | p. 114 |
| Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381): the ebbing and flowing of the Trinity | p. 125 |
| Martin Luther (1483-1546): new avenues for the theology of the Trinity | p. 130 |
| John Calvin (1509-1564): between tradition and renewal | p. 137 |
| The Trinity from Schleiermacher to the end of the twentieth century | p. 142 |
| The Enlightenment and the detraditionalisation of the theology of the Trinity | p. 142 |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and the turn to the subject | p. 144 |
| G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831): a philosophical reinterpretation of the Trinity | p. 148 |
| Karl Barth (1886-1968): revelation and theology of the Trinity | p. 155 |
| Karl Rahner (1904-84): the self-communication of the trinitarian God in us | p. 165 |
| Jürgen Moltmann (1926-): a trinitarian theology of a suffering God | p. 171 |
| Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88): a trinitarian theology of the paschal mystery | p. 176 |
| John Zizioulas (1931-): Trinity, personhood, and Church | p. 186 |
| Summary and conclusion | p. 193 |
| Contemporary trinitarian theology: problems and perspectives | p. 201 |
| Trinitarian anthropology and the social image of God | p. 201 |
| The Trinity and postmodernity | p. 206 |
| The Trinity and religious pluralism | p. 224 |
| Conclusion: towards a trinitarian vision of reality | p. 237 |
| Epilogue | p. 244 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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