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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Revelation of the Trinity | |
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| Revelation, Creation, and Salvation | |
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| The Revelation of the Trinity through its Works | |
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| Thomas' Exposition of Speculative Trinitarian Theology | |
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| Biblical Exegesis and Trinitarian Theology | |
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| The Aim of Speculative Trinitarian Theology | |
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| The Prerogatives of the Faith | |
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| The Rejection of Rationalism | |
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| Understanding the Faith | |
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| Why Investigate Notions, Relations, and Properties? | |
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| The Structure of Thomas' Treatise on the Triune God | |
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| St Thomas: Various Accounts of the Mystery of the Trinity | |
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| The Plan of the Trinitarian Treatise in the Summa Theologiae | |
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| Immanent and Economic Trinity | |
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| The Essence and the Distinction of Persons: the Common and the 'Proper' | |
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| The Game Plan of the Treatise on the Trinity | |
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| The Processions | |
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| The Word 'Procession' | |
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| Action, the Source of Relation | |
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| The Problems of Arianism and of Sabellianism | |
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| A Procession which is the Generation of the Word | |
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| A Different Procession, which is that of Love | |
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| The Order of the Trinitarian Processions | |
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| The Cycle of the Trinitarian Processions | |
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| 'National' Action | |
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| Relations | |
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| Elements of the Patristic Teaching on Relation | |
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| Real Relations in God | |
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| The Being of Divine Relations | |
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| Relative Opposition: Paternity, Filiation, Spiration, and Procession | |
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| Relative Opposition | |
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| Paternity, Filiation, Spiration, Procession | |
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| The Person | |
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| What is a Person? | |
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| Person and Analogy | |
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| Correlations in the Greek and Latin Terminology | |
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| Subsistent Relations | |
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| Relation the Heart of Trinitarian Theology | |
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| Trinitarian Monotheism | |
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| Personal Plurality in the Triune God | |
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| The Theological Terminology of Plurality | |
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| A Transcendental Multiplicity | |
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| The Consubstantiality of the Persons | |
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| Person and Essence: A Problem Raised by Joachim of Fiore | |
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| The Word God | |
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| The Person of the Father | |
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| The Name Which Fits Best: Father | |
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| The Father: Principle and Source | |
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| The Paternity of the Father: Father of the Son and Father of his Creatures | |
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| The Analogous Network of the Name 'Father' | |
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| The Name 'Father': the Person of the Father and the Trinity | |
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| Unbegottenness: The Unengendered Father | |
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| From Father to Father | |
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| The Person of the Son | |
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| Studying the Personal Property of the Son | |
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| Studies in the Analogy of the Word: Anthropology and Trinitarian Theology | |
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| The Son, Word of God | |
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| The Word, Wisdom, and Splendour of the Father | |
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| The Word, Creation, and the Economy: the Father Acts through his Son | |
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| The Word Discloses and Reveals the Father | |
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| The Son Gives us a Share in his Sonship | |
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| The Word, Image of the Father | |
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| Image of the Father, First-Born of Creation | |
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| The Person of the Holy Spirit | |
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| The Name 'Holy Spirit' | |
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| The Holy Spirit is Love in Person | |
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| The Mutual Love of Father and Son | |
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| Creative Love: The Universal Operation of the Holy Spirit | |
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| The Gift of the Father and the Son | |
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| The Holy Spirit's Gifts to Human Beings | |
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| The Holy Spirit Proceeds from the Father and from the Son | |
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| The Doctrinal Weight of the Holy Spirit's Procession a Patre and a Filio | |
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| Biblical and Patristic Documentation | |
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| The Terminology: The Spirit 'Proceeds' from the Father and the Son | |
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| The Councils and the Problem of Adding to the Symbol | |
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| Theoretical Arguments | |
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| Distinction by Relative Opposition | |
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| Love and the Word | |
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| The Trinitarian Order | |
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| Balancing Out the Nuances: The Distinction and the Unity of Father and Son | |
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| The Attitude to the Eastern Orthodox | |
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| The Reciprocal Interiority of the Divine Persons | |
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| The Patristic Legacy | |
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| A Synthesis of Trinitarian Doctrine | |
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| The Essential Unity of the Three Persons: Consubstantiality | |
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| Relations | |
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| Procession | |
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| Theology and Economy | |
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| Appropriation | |
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| The Origins of the Idea of Appropriation | |
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| The Bases for Appropriation | |
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| The Analyses of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Albert | |
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| Thomas' View | |
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| Disclosing the Persons | |
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| The Regions in which Appropriation Applies | |
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| The Advantages and Limitations of Appropriation | |
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| Trinitarian Creation and Action | |
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| The Father Creates and Achieves All Things Through his Son and by his Spirit | |
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| The 'Efficacy' of the Trinitarian Processions | |
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| The Question of the 'Role Proper' to Each of the Persons | |
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| The Persons' Distinct Modes of Action and their Unity in Action | |
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| Trinity and Creation: The Meaning of the Plural | |
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| The Trinitarian Structure of the Economy | |
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| Missions | |
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| Context and Format of the Question about Divine Missions | |
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| The Theory of Mission | |
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| Mission | |
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| Mission, Temporal Procession, and Donation | |
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| The Person who Sends | |
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| The 'Invisible' Mission: The Gift of the Spirit and the Son to the Saints | |
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| Initial Clarifications | |
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| The Seal of Son and Holy Spirit | |
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| God's Presence as Known and Loved | |
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| The Gifts of the Son and Holy Spirit: Two Inseparable and Distinct Missions | |
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| Experiencing the Divine Persons of Son and Holy Spirit | |
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| The Image of the Trinity | |
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| Our Relation to each Divine Person in Grace: Objective Union | |
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| The 'Visible' Missions of the Son and Holy Spirit | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |