Trinity in History: a Theology of the Divine Missions

Robert M. Doran is the Emmett Doerr Chair in Catholic Systematic Theology at Marquette University.

• Preface1. Imitating the Divine RelationOverall Introduction to the Present VolumeA General Note on Lonergan and GirardThe Divine Relations and Their ImitationsAutonomous Spiritual ProcessionsThe Duality of Consciousness and the Dialectic of DesireImago Dei2. The ProgramActual GraceDivine Relations and PersonsA Relational System among the Created TermsSocial Grace and Imitation of and Participation in Divine CircumincessionSocial Grace and the Mission of the Word 3. Actual Grace and the Elevation of the SecularThe ProposalSacralizations and Secularizations Welcomed and ResistedThe ProblemQuestions Posed by Vatican II and Pope John Paul IIHelp from AquinasLonergan on Actual GraceThe Universal Mission of the Holy SpiritThe Universal Mission of the Divine WordThe Multi-religious Context and the Structure of Systematic TheologyCharles Taylor’s Disjunctions 4. The Relations That Are ImitatedDoctrines and SystematicsThe Metaphysics of RelationsThree ElementsThe Four Divine RelationsSubsistent RelationsThree Really Distinct RelationsDivine Relations and the Divine Essence5. Mission and PersonIntroduction: Four Theses Lonergan’s History of the Notion of PersonBalthasar’s History of the Notion of PersonLonergan on PersonPerson and Mission in Balthasar6. Transition to the Historical JesusJesus’ Human Consciousness and His Human Self-understandingFaith, Theology, and HistoryConcluding Theses7. Ben F. Meyer, The Aims of Jesus, and the Third Quest for the Historical JesusTwo AffirmationsPaul and ActsGospel LiteratureWright’s Comments and ContributionConclusionAppendix: Theses Presented in the First Two Volumes of This Work