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date: 03 March 2021

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Aquinas occupies a prominent place in today’s discussions of Trinitarian theology. Each of the seven sections of this chapter deals with an aspect that is or should be present in any reception of Aquinas’ doctrine of the Trinity: the centrality of Trinitarian faith in Aquinas’ theology; the nature and purpose of Aquinas’ Trinitarian theology; the cardinal place of the economy of salvation; the relationship between Trinitarian processions and missions; the organization of the ‘treatise’ on God in the Summa theologiae; the divine persons as ‘subsisting relations’; the Son as Word and Image, and the Holy Spirit as Love and Gift. In Aquinas, Trinitarian doctrine provides the interpretive framework for understanding all other theological topics (from creation to eschatology).

Keywords: God, Trinity, processions, missions, economy of salvation, relations, creation, Word, Holy Spirit, Love

Gilles Emery

Gilles Emery, OP is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Fribourg. He is chief editor of the French edition of the journal Nova et Vetera. His publications include The Trinitarian Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2007); The Trinity: An Introduction to Catholic Doctrine on the Triune God (Catholic University of America Press, 2011); and Présence de Dieu et union à Dieu (Parole et Silence, 2017). He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology (Oxford University Press, 2015), both with Matthew Levering.

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