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A Peircean Approach to Trinity as Community: A Response to Some Responses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Donald L. Gelpi
Donald L. Gelpi*
Affiliation:
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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Abstract

In this article, the author responds to several recent scholarly criticisms of his book The Divine Mother: A Trinitarian Theology of the Holy Spirit. In responding to these objections, he argues that, by invoking the logic and metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce in rethinking the foundations of trinitarian theology, he has formulated a theological construct of the trinity as community, which differs substantively from the efforts of other contemporary theologians to do the same, while at the same time avoiding inadequacies present in their constructs.

Type
Editorial Essay
Information
Horizons , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Spring 2000 , pp. 114 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 2000

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