Persons in Relation: An Essay on the Trinity and Ontology

Tracing out the origins of the Trinitarian revival in the modern era, particularly on account of the influence of Schleiermacher, Tillich, Barth, Rahner, and Pannenberg, through to the destabilizing effects of postmodernity on Trinitarian discourse, the author provides a critical hermeneutic for the evaluation and implementation of thoughtful Trinitarian theology in the contemporary world. Within this frame, the author argues for viewing the Trinity as the intellectual and conceptual context and interdisciplinary arena of interaction between theology and other forms of intellectual inquiries to generate a robust, multifaceted, and historically fluent doctrine of the Trinity.

Najib George Awad is associate professor of Christian theology and director of the International Ph.D. program at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. He is currently completing his habilitationsschrift in Arabic theology and early Christian-Muslim Kalam at the University of Marburgin Germany. He is the author of God without a Face?(2011),And Freedom Became a Public-Square (2012), and a forthcoming volume on Theodore Abu QurrahtitledOrthodoxy in Arabic Terms(2015).