Triune Well-Being

The Kenotic-Enrichment of the Eternal Trinity

Jacqueline Service (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1515-8 (ISBN)

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Synthesizing trajectories across Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant theologies, Service explores the constitutive factors for an ontology of Triune well-being. Not merely of theoretical interest, the book presses a new trinitarian theology of ‘kenotic-enrichment’ as essential, not only for divine being, but for the well-being of humanity.

That God is the perfection of all-blessed abundance, and the source and context for creation’s well-being, tends merely to be assumed in theology. Yet, how does God enact all-blessedness and actualize God’s own abundantly enriched life? And how might such a reality be relevant to human well-being? Addressing these questions in Triune Well-Being: The Kenotic-Enrichment of the Eternal Trinity, Jacqueline Service traces the dynamics of Divine well-being through Scripture, Christian metaphysics, and a synthesis of Orthodox (Bulgakov), Catholic (Von Balthasar), and Protestant (Pannenberg) Trinitarian theologies to argue that God’s “all-blessed” life, the glory of well-being, is symbiotic with triune self-giving (kenosis); a concept identified as “kenotic-enrichment” or “enriching-kenosis.” Such a trinitarian exploration not only offers a fresh perspective on the contested topic of kenosis but goes to the heart of a doctrine of God that implicates the possibility of the well-being of all life.

Jacqueline Service is lecturer of systematic theology at St Mark’s National Theological Centre and Associate Head of School in the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Part I: An Ontology of Triune Well-Being
Chapter 1: The Logic of Divine Self-Enrichment
Chapter 2: Beyond Static Perfection: Divine Self-Enrichment and Classical Theism
Chapter 3: Beyond Deficiency: Enrichment from Divine Fullness
Part II: The Ecumenical Thread of Divine Self-Enrichment
Chapter 4: Divine Self-Enrichment in Sergei Bulgakov
Chapter 5: Divine Self-Enrichment in Wolfhart Pannenberg
Chapter 6: Divine Self-Enrichment in Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Conclusion to Part II
Part III: The Divine ‘Dance-Steps’
Chapter 7: Kenotic-Enrichment: Characteristics and Implications of Divine Self-Enrichment
Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Doxological Posture of Enrichment

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Illustration
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-9787-1515-3 / 1978715153
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-1515-8 / 9781978715158
Zustand	Neuware