Veritas

The Holy Trinity is the oldest idea of Christian hope. The study of being or ontology was once regarded as a seminal preparation for the study of God as the creative cause of all being in theology. Yet due to a series of theological mistakes, metaphysics came to be separated from the Trinity before God came to be conceived as the supreme being of all beings in general metaphysics, natural theology, and modern ontology. The analytic and continental philosophical traditions have since tended to treat the Trinity as, at best, superfluous, and, at worst, redundant to modern formal ontologies. Yet the postmodern collapse of all such formal ontologies has prepared the path for a renewed study of metaphysics or ontology that shares in participation with the Trinity. New Trinitarian Ontologies names a creative response to this pivotal collapse of modern formal ontologies. If ontology cannot contain but rather more radically points to God, and if all nature thus tends towards the supernatural, the angelic, and the metaphysical, then we should renew the study of the metaphysics or ontology of the Trinity. This volume represents a collection of responses to this challenge of rendering ontology in a Trinitarian style.

This collection by academics from across the world celebrates the contributions of Emmanuel Falque, a leading and influential voice in contemporary French phenomenology and beyond, to the philosophy of religion. Doing Philosophy of Religion with Emmanuel Falque wrestles with central philosophical and theological questions related to death, trauma, transformation, revelation, corporeality, and dwelling while insisting on the essential connection between concept and action, reflection and life.

Augustine recognized memory to be pivotal in his journey to remember and know God. His theology of memoria is intriguingly complex and profound. An architectonic study of Augustinian memory reveals in greater depth Augustine's logical and deeply personal approach to his interrogation of memory. Following Augustine's lead, this book has a co-opted a transdisciplinary approach where Augustinian memory is explicated incorporating different specialisms. This is not a theology versus science text; it is a blending of the two where each ungirds the other. As such, architectonics has unveiled four main neoteric discoveries that have made some of Augustine's paradoxes regarding memory less enigmatic. First, an architectonic structure of memory elucidating the symphonic forms and fundamental affordances of memory in Conf. X and earlier writings. Second, the insights from the examination of Augustinian memory and Arc, a unique memory gene. Third, a model for the simultaneity of the three cardinal "moments" of time (creation, incarnation, eternity) with temporal time (past, present, future) and physical time illustrated by the Arc gene. Fourth, the theory of recapitulation where Conf. XIII recapitulates I-XII viewed through creation and other motifs in Confessiones. It is hoped that this book will provoke a new way of thinking about Augustinian memory--a re-thinking of Augustine's theology of memoria.

Aimé Forest (1898–1983) was a French metaphysical philosopher and historian of medieval philosophy who taught at the universities of Grenoble and then Montpellier. Consent to Being, published in 1936, was his first book, and it, along with the ones that followed, such as Consentement et Création (1943), La vocation de l'Esprit (1953), and L'avènement de l'âme (1973), established him as a leading figure among the twentieth-century French Catholic "philosophers of the spirit." In this book he is concerned with bringing to light the spiritual significance of what he calls the philosophical method of consent to being. His insistence on the profound connection between the spirit and being underlies his ambitious project of resurrecting metaphysical thought in the modern day by rescuing it from the abstractions of the scientific understanding. This first English translation of any of Forest's books introduces a Christian philosopher of great significance and originality to the anglophone intellectual world.

In an age of profound anthropological crisis, the question of what it means to be human has never been more urgent. Yet, the path to self-understanding is often obscured by fleeting ideologies and fragmented philosophies that fail to provide a coherent and lasting answer. This book argues that the key to a true and complete understanding of our humanity is found not in modern theories, but in the timeless figure of Mary, the Mother of Christ. Moving beyond simple piety, Joseph Terry constructs a rigorous and compelling "Theo-philosophical anthropology" grounded in the great Marian dogmas-her Divine Motherhood, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, and Assumption. By examining Mary as the archetypal human person, this work reveals a stunning and coherent vision of our own identity, vocation, origin, and ultimate destiny. It demonstrates how she, as a "mere creature" perfectly united to God, provides the definitive blueprint for a humanity fully alive. For those seeking a robust, deeply rooted, and transformative answer to the question of who we are, this book offers a journey into the very heart of the human mystery, illuminated by the woman who stood at the center of salvation history.

Though rooted in a well-known New Testament passage, the identification of God with love has proved to be a contentious issue for theologians throughout the history of Christian theology. This is due to the various ways that love can be understood within creation and the difficulty of attributing much of this to the divine nature. In this new publication of his doctoral dissertation, Cameron B. Crickenberger marshals the insights of theologians including Thomas Aquinas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Ferdinand Ulrich, and Klaus Hemmerle to develop a constructive way of integrating the various aspects of love that often conflict with each other when attributed to the trinitarian God. Interrelationality with God, the paradox of Unity and Plurality, the nature and role of kenotic love in the divine life, and the profound and underappreciated importance of final causality in our theological language, this volume attempts to advance the protracted theological conversations between various camps in order to open new avenues of theological reflection on the Holy Trinity.