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Book SynopsisKaren Kilby explores the doctrine of the Trinity and issues of evil, suffering and sin. She offers a critique of the lack of respect for mystery found in the most popular Trinitarian thinking of our time. Kilby gives an apophatic reading of Aquinas on the Trinity and offers a distinct next step in the sequence on the Trinity the appeal of social doctrines of the Trinity lies principally in their ecclesial and political relevance. She engages with Miroslav Volf's famous
The Trinity is our social program' essay and addresses the question of what an alternative politics of an apophatic theology of the Trinity might look like. The essays explore the question of theodicy and argue that evil poses a question to Christians and Christian's theology which can neither be answered nor dismissed. Kilby argues that Christians must live with this mystery, this lack of resolution, rather than trying to diminish the gravity of evil, or allowing evil to dictate their conception of God's goodnes
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Perichoresis and Projection: Problems with Social Doctrines of the Trinity 3. Aquinas, the Trinity, and the Limits of Understanding 4. Is an Apophatic Trinitarianism Possible? 5. The Trinity and Politics: An Apophatic Approach 6. The Status of the Concept: A Reflection on John Zizioulas’ Being as Communion 7. Evil and the Limits of Theology 8. Sin, Evil, and the Problem of Intelligibility 9. Grace and Paradox 10. Christian Theology, Anti-Liberalism and Modern Jewish Thought 11. Julian of Norwich, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Status of Suffering in Christian Theology 12. Beauty and Mystery in Mathematics and Theology Bibliography Index
