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Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations

Part of the New Approaches to Religion and Power Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137464781

ISBN: 978-1-349-49935-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 14, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Trinitarian Theologies and the Elision of Material Bodies

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 1 –15

[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the nonfiction story of Henrietta Lacks and the cancerous cells that were extracted from her body without her consent.1 These cancerous cells grew in lab cultures, even after Henrietta’s cancer caused her death, eventually providing medical scientists...
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Chapter 2Possibilities of a Material Trinitarian Theology

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 17 –37

[“Arha was taught that to be powerful she must sacrifice. Sacrifice herself and others. A bargain: give, and so get. And I cannot say that that’s untrue. But my soul cannot live in that narrow place—this for that, tooth for tooth, death for life … There is freedom beyond that. Beyond payment,...
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Chapter 3Knowing the Trinity: Augustine’s Material Epistemology in The Trinity

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 39 –62

[From misogynistic poster boy to misunderstood mystic, the fourth-century writings of Augustine serve many different functions in contemporary theology. Augustine’s vast, confusing, and often contradictory writings lend themselves to many different interpretations.1 These interpretive issues come...
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Chapter 4Desiring Divine and Human Bodies in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s The Flowing Light of the Godhead

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 63 –84

[In apparent opposition to Augustine’s attempt to excise the body from trinitarian theology, many in the thirteenth century seemed obsessed with material bodies. This curiosity seemed to revolve around new scientific understandings as well as practices of bodily partition performed for scientific...
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Chapter 5Trinitarian Politics in Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 85 –108

[From Mechthild’s theological poetics—a material trinitarian theology communicated in truly unique fashion—we traverse another half a millennium to the twentieth-century theologies of the husband and wife theological duo Jürgen Moltmann (1926–) and Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel (1926–). Grounding the...
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Chapter 6Following the Cracks of Trinitarian Theology

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 109 –132

[The connections between material power relations and trinitarian theologies, which I have identified through the course of the previous three chapters, hint at the possibilities of a trinitarian theology in which we not only know God as triune through our bodies—as they are inscribed in material...
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Chapter 7Epistemology, Ontology, Ethics, and Politics of the Material Trinity

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 133 –156

[In Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence, Matthew Sanford describes his journey through a traumatic car accident that killed his father and his sister and left him paralyzed from the chest down.1 According to Sanford, his immediate coping response (encouraged by doctors and therapists)...
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Chapter 8Conclusion: The Terms of Trinitarian Theology

Minister, Meredith

Pages: 157 –167

[When I teach Aquinas’s proofs for the existence of God, I draw on Aquinas’s historical context and changing scientific assumptions in order to shift the focus from Aquinas’s question on the existence of God to Aquinas’s assumptions about the nature of the relationship between God and the world....

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