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This Lecture will enable students to:

a) demonstrate a historically informed understanding of the significance of the doctrine the trinity for the Christian concept of God

(b) give an account of the interrelation between the trinitarian doctrine of God and the Church’s self-understanding with reference to patristic, medieval and modern sources.

(c) evaluate critically a variety of Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox views concerning the nature of this doctrine.

(d) analyse and interpret key texts and sources relating to trinitarian theology

(e) develop an awareness of the spiritual significance of this doctrine for the Christian form of life in a post-confessional world.

• The Grammar of the Trinity
• The Rise of Cristian Doctrine
• The Cappadocian Fathers on the Trinity
• St. Augustine on the Trinity
• Karl Barth on Trinity and Revelation
• Karl Rahner on Trinity and Revelation
• Nicholas of Cusa’s Trinitarian Mystics

Lecture.

Oral examination.

General information on exams, dates and sign-on at the department: https://www.uibk.ac.at/systheol/lehre/pruefungen.html.en.

Catechism of the Catholic Church. Part 1, chapter 1, acticle 1.1-2; chapter 2, article 2-7; chapter 3, article 8.
Rowan Williams, "Trinitate, de". In: Allan Fitzgerald; John C. Cavadini (Ed.), Augustine through the ages. An Encyclopedia, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1999), 845-851.
Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian faith. An introduction to the idea of Christianity (London: Darton, Longman and Todd 1978), chap. 4 and 5.

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