The Trinity and Creation in Augustine

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Ecological Problem of Dominion and the Doctrine of God
Ecologically Informed Theological Ethics: Interrelatedness in Ecology
The Problem of Hierarchy in Modern Theology

Part I

1. The Contemporary Critique of Augustine

The Forms of Eastern and Western Trinitarian Thought
Augustineâs Western Form of the Trinity: Modalism
The Trinity and the Doctrine of Creation: Cause and Effect
The Scriptural Basis of Augustineâs Trinitarian Doctrine

2. Augustineâs Doctrine of the Trinity
Subordinationism and the Divine Missions
Monarchy, Simplicity, and Relations of Origin: Augustineâs
Trinitarian Logic
Modalism

3. Augustine and Hierarchy in the Trinity
Hierarchy and the Trinitarian Relations
Hierarchy and the Divine Substance

Part II

4. The Trinitarian Founding of Creation

The Structure of The Literal Meaning of Genesis
Naming the Trinity in Genesis 1
How the Trinity Founds the Creation 68 How the Trinity Converts and Perfects Creatures

5. Trinitarian Governance and Creaturely

Participation in God
Participation in Augustineâs Theology
Godâs Providential Governance and Creaturely Motion
Participation in the Trinity through Measure, Number and Weight
Formless Matter and the Question of Passivity

6. Resting in God, the Image of God, and Dominion

Resting in God
Use and Enjoyment
The Work of Human Dominion and the Image of God
Dominion and Power

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index