Contents
Introduction: Identifying Idealist Influences
THE IDEALIST TRINITARIAN ADVENTURE
Johan Gottlieb Fichte: Setting the Stage
1. Georg W. F. Hegel: A Daring Claim
The Shape and End Result of Hegel’s Efforts
How Hegel Argued His Trinitarian Position
Systematic Concerns Motivating Hegel’s Reconceptualization
2. Friedrich W. J. von Schelling: A Radically Free and Personal God
The Radically Free and Personal Trinitarian God
EARLY EUROPEAN TESTIMONIALS TO IDEALIST INFLUENCE
3. Philipp Marheineke: A Trinitarian Dialectic of Being and Thought
An Early Testimonial to Idealist Influence
4. Isaak August Dorner: An Ethical Trinity
A Later Testimonial to Idealist Influence
5. Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov: A Trinitarian Metaphysics
Solovyov’s Lectures on Divine Humanity
An Eastern Testimonial to Idealist Influence
GERMAN IDEALIST FAMILY RESEMBLANCES
6. Karl Barth: A Self-Revealing Trinity
7. Karl Rahner: A Self-Communicating Trinity
8. Wolfhart Pannenberg: Reciprocally Self-Distinguishing Divine Persons
9. Robert W. Jenson: A Narrative Trinity
10. Catherine Mowry LaCugna: One Trinity of Communion among Persons
11. Joseph A. Bracken: A Panentheistic Process Trinitarian Society
Bracken on Trinity and the God-World Relationship
12. Dale M. Schlitt: An Experiential Trinity
Conclusion: Idealism’s Enduring Trinitarian Legacy
Recalling the Idealist Trinitarian Adventure