Trinity, Freedom and Love: An Engagement with the Theology of Eberhard J}}ngel [Hardcover]

By critically engaging Eberhard J?ngel's doctrine of the Trinity, this volume makes a broader, constructive contribution to contemporary trinitarian thought.The argument centers on the question - posed by the inconsistencies uncovered in J?ngel's doctrine of God - of how one can assert both divine freedom and the inter-subjectivity of God's trinitarian self-determination. Can one maintain God's freedom in the interest of divine spontaneity and creativity, while remaining committed to inter-subjective vulnerability which the Cross entails as an event of divine love?

Malysz suggests that a resolution to this problem lies in a logic of divine freedom, which, next to the trinitarian logic of love, constitutes a different and simultaneous mode of trinitarian relationality. To develop this logic, Malysz draws on J?ngel's understanding of human freedom as rooted in the elemental interruption of the self-securing subject. Malysz thus not only brings J?ngel's view of divine freedom into correspondence with the anthropological effects that J?ngel ascribes to it, but, above all, offers an imaginative, new way of closely integrating the doctrine of God and theological anthropology.

This study constructively engages the relation between God's freedom and God's love and offers a way of inter-subjective integration of trinitarian doctrine and theological anthropology

In this highly challenging work, J?ngel's theology is subjected to a searching and substantial analysis. Ambiguities in his doctrine of the Trinity are not only pin-pointed but also creatively resolved. Much light is case in the process on his difficult and distinctive ideas of freedom and love. Malysz's work will be a standard point of reference for all those interested in these questions. George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

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