Abstract
This chapter concludes the volume with a brief discussion of two interrelated topics. First, it was argued in the second chapter that medieval theologians shared a common understanding of the divine relations. Here that common theology is placed into contrast with Wolfhart Pannenberg’s theology of the divine relations to highlight an alternative account that was not supported by any medieval theologians. Second, the chapter examines the ways in which post-Lombardian medieval trinitarian theology was circumscribed by certain theological, philosophical, and educational developments that occurred in the early thirteenth century.
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Notes
- 1.
Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology, 131, emphasis his.
- 2.
Fred Lawrence related this account of Lonergan’s lectures in private correspondence.
- 3.
Ibid. 132.
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Here, for example, one can think about the way in which the Lombard placed his discussion of the imago Dei (I.3) immediately before his discussion of the emanation of the Son (I.4–7), and the way in which this location of the two topics influenced how subsequent thinkers employed the imago in discussions of the divine emanations via the noetic analogies of Augustine.
- 5.
Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology I, 273.
- 6.
Ibid. 309–311.
- 7.
Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology I, 294–312.
- 8.
Lewis Ayres, Nicaea and Its Legacy, 385n4.
- 9.
Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology I, 280–299.
- 10.
Abelard, Historia Calamitatum 10.
- 11.
See John T. Slotemaker, “Peter Lombard and the Imago Trinitatis,” 175–180.
- 12.
Jacques-Guy Bougerol, “The Church Fathers,” 115.
- 13.
Russell L. Friedman, Intellectual Traditions, 345.
- 14.
Ibid. 346.
- 15.
Marilyn McCord Adams, “The Metaphysics of the Trinity,” 101.
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See John T. Slotemaker, “William of Ockham,” 121–142.
- 17.
John T. Slotemaker and Jeffrey C. Witt, Robert Holcot, 76–81.
- 18.
Michael H. Shank, Unless you Believe.
- 19.
Servetus, De Trinitatis erroribus I (II-2, 679).
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Slotemaker, J.T. (2020). Conclusion. In: Trinitarian Theology in Medieval and Reformation Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47790-5_5
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