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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations and Sources | |
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| Introduction: Faith Seeking Connections | |
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| The Development of Trinitarian Theology in the Patristic and Medieval Periods | |
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| Faith's Experience of the Three: The Originating Experience | |
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| The Early Distillation of Trinitarian Faith | |
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| The Cappadocians in the East and Augustine of Hippo in the West | |
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| Thomas Aquinas: God Is the Perfection of Being, Actus Purus, Ipsum Esse | |
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| Richard of St. Victor: God as Trinity of Love, Ipsum Amare | |
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| Bonaventure: God Is Good and Goodness Is Self-diffusive | |
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| Jan van Ruusbroec: Trinity as Whirlpool: Love Returns What It Receives | |
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| Julian of Norwich: As Truly as God Is Our Father, So Truly God Is Our Mother | |
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| Contemporary Approaches to Trinitarian Theology | |
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| Karl Rahner: The Trinity as Mystery of Salvation | |
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| Liberation Approaches to the Trinity: The Trinity Is Our Social Program | |
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| Trinity as Mystery of Communion and Personhood | |
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| He Is the Image of the Invisible God: Jesus Christ's Paschal Mystery as Icon of the Trinity | |
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| Trinity and Christology | |
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| Trinitarian Doctrine as Precursor | |
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| The Christological Dispute and the Chalcedonian Resolution | |
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| Contemporary Approaches to Christology | |
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| Christology from a Trinitarian Perspective | |
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| Jacques Dupuis' Trinitarian Christology: Jesus' Uniqueness as "Constitutive" and "Relational" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity, the Paschal Mystery, and Soteriology | |
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| Sebastian Moore: The Grassroots Experience of the Trinity | |
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| Francois-Xavier Durrwell and the Mystery of the Resurrection | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity and Creation, Ecology and Evolution | |
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| The Classical Theology of Creation: The Work of the Trinity Ad Extra Is One | |
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| Contemporary Approaches Regarding the Trinity's Role in Creation | |
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| Trinity and Ecology: An Eco-Trinitarian Theology | |
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| Trinity and Evolution: Charles Darwin's "Gift to Theology" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity and Church | |
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| Classical Approaches to Ecclesiology | |
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| Leonardo Boff: The Trinity as Our Social Program | |
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| Miroslav Volf: Limits Inherent in the Notion That the Trinity Is Our Social Program | |
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| The Local Church and the Universal Church | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity and the World Religions | |
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| Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: Can Non-Christians Be Saved? | |
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| The Place of Other Religions in God's Creative Plan: The Salvific Efficacy of Non-Christian Religions | |
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| A Trinitarian Approach to a Theology of Non-Christian Religions and Interfaith Dialogue | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity, Grace, and the Moral Life | |
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| The Classical Approach to a Theology of Grace | |
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| Karl Rahner: Grace as the Divine Self-communication | |
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| The Psychological Analogy and the Dynamics of Grace | |
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| The Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of the Moral Life | |
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| Grace and the Moral Life | |
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| The Social Model of the Trinity and the Moral Life | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity, Spirituality, and Worship | |
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| Trinity and Spirituality: The Trinitarian Grammar of Christian Spiritual Life | |
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| Paschal Dimensions of Trinitarian Spirituality | |
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| Trinity and Prayer | |
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| Trinity and Liturgy | |
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| The Eucharist and the Trinity | |
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| Preaching the Trinity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trinity and Eschatology | |
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| Wolfhart Pannenberg: The Kingdom of God as the Glory of the Trinity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion: The Mysteries of Christian Faith in a Trinitarian Setting | |
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| Christology | |
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| Paschal Mystery and Soteriology | |
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| Creation | |
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| Church | |
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| The World Religions | |
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| Grace and the Moral Life | |
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| Spirituality and Worship | |
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| Eschatology: Our Ultimate End | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Filioque Controversy | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |