Trinity, Society and Dialogue (CT3000P)

Content

This unit will explore the origins and contemporary significance of the doctrine of the Trinity. Key historical developments in the Eastern and Western traditions will be surveyed. Against this historical background, the re-emergence of the doctrine of the Trinity in the twentieth century will be explored. Attention will be paid to the role which this doctrine is playing in the global church’s encounter with modern atheism, religious pluralism, and theological discussions of gender and sexuality.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

CT1000P (Christianity’s Big Ideas) or CT1010P (Culture, Beliefs and Theology) and one level 2 CT Unit.

Pedagogy

Lectures will introduce the key themes and ideas of the unit. They will be accompanied by tutorials in which key critical issues and background readings will be discussed

Indicative Bibliography

• Boff, Leonardo. Trinity and Society. Maryknoll:Orbis, 1988.
• Coakley, Sarah. God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Emery, Giles and Matthew Levering (eds). The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• LaCugna, Catherine Mowry. God For Us: The Trinity and Christian Life. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
• Ogbonnaya, A. Okechukwu. On Communitarian Divinity: An African Interpretation of the Trinity New York: Paragon House, 1994.
• O’Collins, The Tri-personal God: Understanding and Interpreting the Trinity. 2nd edn. New York: Paulist, 2014.
• Moltmann, Jürgen. The Trinity and the Kingdom of God: The Doctrine of God. London: SCM, 1981.
• Pannikar, Raimundo. The Trinity and the Religious Experience of Man. New York: Orbis, 1973.
• Rahner, Karl. The Trinity. Translated by Joseph Donceel. Introduction by Catherine Mowry Lacugna. New York: Herder and Herder, 2005.
• Tonstad, Linn Marie, God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Assessment