Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations

This text crafts a trinitarian theology that reorients theology from presumptions about the immateriality of the Trinity toward the places where the Trinity matters-material bodies in historical contexts and the intersecting ways political and theological power structures normalize and marginalize bodies on the basis of material difference.

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Trinitarian Theologies and the Elision of Material Bodies 1. Possibilities of a Material Trinitarian Theology 2. Knowing the Trinity: Augustine's Material Epistemology in The Trinity 3. Desiring Divine and Human Bodies in Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead 4. Trinitarian Politics in Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel 5. Following the Cracks of Trinitarian Theology 6. Epistemology, Ontology, Ethics, and Politics of the Material Trinity Conclusion The Terms of Trinitarian Theology Notes Bibliography Index