Engaging Nicene Trinitarianism

Matthias Grebe is Centre Lead and Lecturer at St. Mellitus College, UK. He is also Associate Vicar of St Edward, King and Martyr in Cambridge and the Church of England’s Adviser for European Church Relations at Lambeth Palace.Nadine Hamilton is Akademische Rätin and teaches Systematic Theology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany.Christian Schlenker is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

In this engaging and important volume, the editors have assembled a distinguished group of scholars representing a variety of perspectives to think about and beyond the Council of Nicaea. It offers biblical engagements, historical engagements, doctrinal engagements and philosophical engagements. Anyone interested in the significance of Nicaean theology should be engaging with this valuable volume.

• Introduction (Matthias Grebe, St Mellitus College, UK; Nadine Hamilton, University of Regensburg, Germany; Christian Schlenker, University of Tübingen, Germany)I. Historical Analysis1. Interpreting Nicaea: Historical and Contemporary Contexts (John Behr, University of Aberdeen, UK) 2. One in Being as One in Goodness: Re-reading Nicaea with a Third-Century Interprative Key (Pui Him Ip, University of Cambridge, UK) 3. Arguing with St Basil about Taxis: On Modern Agreements About Fixing Nicene Pneumatology (Isaac Frisby, University of Durham, UK)4. The Reception of the Creed of Nicaea-Constantinople in the Christological Controversy (David Burkhard Janssen, University of Tübingen, Germany)II. Theological Exploration5. The Procession of the Holy Spirit: Revisiting the Filioque through the Intra-Trinitarian Relations of Origin and Economic Missions (Matthias Grebe, St Mellitus College, UK)6. The Filioque Controversy: A Historical and Theological Analysis from the Perspective of Vladimir Lossky (Tijana Petkovic, University of Tübingen, Germany) 7. From One to Three? The Viability of Emergent Social Trinitarianism (Johannes Grössl, University of Paderborn, Germany)8. Re-Orientating 'Ontological Receptivity': Grounding the Son's Receptivity to the Human Jesus on Passive Generation (Alex Irving, St Mellitus College, UK)III. Contemporary Relevance9. The Relevance of the Nicene Creed (Christian Schlenker, University of Geneva, Switzerland)10. An Ontology of God’s Threefold Name: Rediscovering Christological Foundations (Nadine Hamilton, University of Regensburg, Germany) 11. Trinity and Empathy: The Modern Renewal of Trinitarian Ontology and the Experience of Empathy in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein (Katrin König, Heidelberg University, Germany).12. Believing in One God: The Nicene Creed and the Shema (Mark W. Scarlata, St Mellitus College, UK)Cumulative BibliographyIndex