John 17:20-23: Jesus said, I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they be one, even as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they may be in us . . . . that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou in me, that they . . . . Continue Reading »
By following the church calendar, we commemorate the events of our salvation each year. Trinity Sunday doesn’t celebrate an event. Instead, it shows that throughout the church year we commemorate the events of our salvation in order to encounter the God of our salvation. During Advent and at . . . . Continue Reading »
Phenomenology, especially in its Heideggerian variety, attempts to overcome the modern obsession with epistemology and return us to being, to ontology. What Heidegger in fact seems to do is overcome the divide between epistemology and ontology so that philosophy is both at the same time, but . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Living and True God: The Mystery of the Trinity (New Revised Edition ) (p. 54) , Luis Ladaria makes the intriguing point that the Persons of the Trinity cannot be persons in precisely the same sense: “we can in effect doubt that the term ‘person’ or hypostasis means exactly . . . . Continue Reading »
“Why is the Tetragrammaton kept separate from other names?” Luther asks. “Can it be so sacred, and other names so profane, that it is polluted when brought into contact with them? Such would be the fictions of the Jews.” No Kabbalist he. Yet, he goes on: “The meaning . . . . Continue Reading »
Who else but Cyril O’Regan to write the essay on Hegel’s Trinitarian theology in The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity (Oxford Handbooks in Religion) ? As with Schleiermacher, Ja’s and Nein’s are both in order(pp. 257-9). On the plus side (sort of): “Hegel makes the . . . . Continue Reading »
Gilles Emery and Matthew Levering have assembled a star-studded collection of contributors for their The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity (Oxford Handbooks in Religion) . The book covers the entire history of Trinitarian thought - from the Old and New Testaments, through patristic and medieval . . . . Continue Reading »
Weinsheimer ( Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method ,. p. 255 ) spells out the ontological import of Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy: “Things make themselves understood in their interpretation - that is, in language that speaks to us here and now . . . . Being . . . . Continue Reading »
Agamben ( The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) , p. 2) is surprised that there is so little attention paid to oikonomia by theologians. He thinks he understands: “It is probably that, at least in the case of . . . . Continue Reading »
Gadamer waxing (Hegelian and) perichoretic (quoted in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method , p. 159): “Life is defined by the fact that what is alive differentiates itself from the world in which in which it lives and to which it is bound, and preserves itself in such . . . . Continue Reading »
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