Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Trinitarian Theologies and the Elision of Material Bodies

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3. Possibilities of a Material Trinitarian Theology

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4. Knowing the Trinity: Augustine’s Material Epistemology in The Trinity

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5. Desiring Divine and Human Bodies in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s The Flowing Light of the Godhead

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6. Trinitarian Politics in Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel

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7. Following the Cracks of Trinitarian Theology

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8. Epistemology, Ontology, Ethics, and Politics of the Material Trinity

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9. Conclusion: The Terms of Trinitarian Theology

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10. Back Matter

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This text crafts a trinitarian theology that reorients theology from presumptions about the immateriality of the Trinity toward the places where the Trinity matters—material bodies in historical contexts and the intersecting ways political and theological power structures normalize and marginalize bodies on the basis of material difference.

• bibliography
• epistemology
• ethics
• god
• knowledge
• ontology
• Orient
• politics
• structure
• theology

"At last a book that places materiality at the heart of thinking about the Trinity and in so doing insists that all bodies become the locus for such thinking and the creation of theology. This work is creative and insightful and moves us beyond the static categories of Trinitarian theology. In my view a 'must read'." - Lisa Isherwood, Director, Institute for Theological Partnerships, University of Winchester, UK

Meredith Minister is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kentucky Wesleyan College, USA.

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