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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Holy Trinity, Our Liberation Program | |
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| In the beginning is the communion of the Three not the solitude of a One | |
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| From the solitude of a One to the communion of the Three | |
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| In the beginning is communion | |
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| Why only three divine Persons? Why not two or just one? | |
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| It's dangerous to say: One God in heaven and one head on earth | |
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| A disintegrated experience of the blessed Trinity | |
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| The same glory to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit | |
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| The blessed Trinity is a mystery ever to be known anew | |
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| Perichoresis: The interpenetration of the three divine Persons | |
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| The Father's two hands, the Son and the Holy Spirit | |
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| The revealing of the Trinity | |
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| How has the Father of infinite kindness been revealed? | |
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| How has the Son, our brother, been revealed? | |
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| How has the Holy Spirit, our strength, been revealed? | |
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| The trinitarian awareness of the early Christians | |
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| The Old Testament preparation for the revelation of the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Human reason and the Blessed Trinity | |
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| How Christians have expressed the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Three ways of understanding the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Key words for expressing faith in the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Erroneous ways of understanding the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Human imagination and the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Believing also with our imagination | |
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| The human person as image of the Trinity | |
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| The human family, symbol of the Trinity | |
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| Society as image of the Trinity | |
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| The church, great symbol of the Trinity | |
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| The world, sacrament of the Trinity | |
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| What the Blessed Trinity is: Communion of life and love among the divine Three | |
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| The Trinity is an eternal communication of life | |
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| I-Thou-We: The Blessed Trinity | |
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| The Trinity as an eternal self-communication | |
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| The Blessed Trinity is the perfect community | |
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| Male and female within the Blessed Trinity | |
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| Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist together from all eternity | |
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| In the Trinity all relationships are threefold | |
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| Three suns but a single light: Such is the Blessed Trinity | |
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| The communion of the Trinity: Critique and inspiration for society and church | |
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| Beyond capitalism and real socialism | |
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| From a church-as-society to a church-as-communion | |
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| The Person of the Father: Mystery of tenderness | |
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| Who is the Father? Mystery of tenderness | |
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| The Father, eternal root of all sister-and-brotherhood | |
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| Motherly Father, and fatherly Mother | |
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| The Father, principle without principle | |
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| How the Father appears: In the mystery of all things | |
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| The Person of the Son: Mystery of communication and principle of liberation | |
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| Who is the Son? Eternal communication | |
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| The eternal Son of the eternal Father in the Holy Spirit | |
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| The male and female of the Son and our Brother | |
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| The mission of the Son: Liberate and make all sons and daughters | |
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| The Person of the Holy Spirit: Mystery of love, and in-breaking of the new | |
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| Who is the Holy Spirit? The driving force of full liberation | |
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| The Spirit is always united with the Son and the Father | |
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| The simultaneity of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son | |
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| The feminine dimension of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Mission of the Holy Spirit: To unify and create the new | |
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| The unique relationship between the Holy Spirit and Mary | |
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| The Trinity in heaven and the Trinity on earth: The internal history of the Trinity reflected in the external history of creation | |
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| As it was in the beginning: The eternity of the Trinity | |
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| The Trinity in heaven manifests itself on earth | |
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| The glory and joy of the Trinity | |
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| Creation projected toward communion | |
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| Each divine Person helps in creating the universe | |
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| Signs of the Trinity under the shadow of history | |
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| Now and forever: The Trinity in creation and creation in the Trinity | |
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| Conclusion: Summary of trinitarian doctrine: The whole in many fragments | |
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| Glossary: Technical theological terms used for discussion of the Trinity | |