New Trinitarian Paradigm of Thinking
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Theologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 158
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It will not be an exaggeration to say that the twentieth century, especially beginning with Karl Barth's groundbreaking insights, was a time of renaissance for Trinitarian theology. This theology thus joined the fourth and thirteenth centuries, two periods of theology that particularly contributed to the systematization of Trinitarian thinking. Compared to at least the second half of the last century, today we are observing a kind of impasse in this field. It seems that the time has come to make an in-depth reflection on the dynamics of the aforementioned three nodal and key periods in the development of Trinitarian theology. This is the starting idea of this issue of Religions: to reflect on the path traveled on until today.
However, the starting point of the historical reflection does not imply that the presented issue will be limited to historical matters only. The dynamic and multifaceted development of knowledge prompts and calls for detailed research also in the field of trinitology. And so, it is necessary to point out several subject fields that mark the area of contemporary issues disputed in its field, and as such, call for in-depth research:
- The basic determination of the genotype, form and method of the Trinitarian reflection: does it need philosophy? If so, what kind?
- The place of Trinitarian reflection in the body of systematic theology (fundamental, dogmatic, moral, spiritual);
- The rather dynamically developing question of the Trinitarian account of being and existence (Trinitarian ontology/metaphysics);
- The concept of relation as a key to the Trinitarian reflection;
- Possible points of commonality between the picture of the world emerging from empirical sciences and the Trinitarian foundation of the Christian vision of the world (more broadly: the question of the relationship of Trinitarian theology and the sciences);
- The interdisciplinarity in Trinitarian theology;
- The use of instruments associated with analytic philosophy to create new Trinitarian models;
- The interaction of the Trinitarian worldview and issues related to nature and functions of human society;
- Further research on the place and role of Trinitarian reflection in issues of theology of religion.
The list, of course, is not limited and could be extended to other topics. It contains only the privileged fields of reflection to which the described issue of Religions will be primarily devoted.
Prof. Dr. Robert Woźniak
Guest Editor
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