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Transcendentality and conversation : on the Trinity and ‘word-exchange’
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dc.contributor.author | Leung, King-Ho | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-11T10:30:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-07-11T10:30:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Leung , K-H 2022 , ' Transcendentality and conversation : on the Trinity and ‘word-exchange’ ' , Modern Theology , vol. 38 , no. 4 , pp. 796-816 . https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12803 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0266-7177 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 280261018 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 19337ad6-49ac-4c32-af67-110a68cdda7a | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-5551-7865/work/115941470 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85133727328 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000822546900001 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25647 | |
dc.description | Funding: Templeton Religion Trust (Grant Number(s): TRT0391). | en |
dc.description.abstract | This article considers how the notions of ‘word’ and ‘conversation’ can contribute to contemporary developments in theological metaphysics by drawing on Christoph Schwöbel’s ontological rendition of Martin Luther’s theology. By way of reading Schwöbel’s theological ontology of conversation with reference to John Milbank’s theology of the gift, this article shows that Schwöbel’s conception of the Trinity as an eternal ‘conversation’ can be understood as an ontology of ‘word-exchange’ in a fashion similar to Milbank’s account of trinitarian ‘gift-exchange’. Moreover, the article argues that Schwöbel’s Lutheran construal of creation as God’s ‘created words’ (verba creata) can present a transcendental account of ‘word’ or verbum which complements Milbank’s ontology of the gift or donum. By bringing to light these perhaps surprising convergences between Schwöbel’s Lutheran theology of ‘the word’ and Milbank’s Christian Neo-Platonic theology of ‘the gift’, this article highlights some of the often-overlooked metaphysical insights in Luther’s theology of the word, which can contribute not only to ecumenical theological dialogue, but also foster new perspectives and conversations for contemporary developments and discussions in theological metaphysics. | |
dc.format.extent | 21 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Modern Theology | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2022 The Author. Modern Theology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | BD Speculative Philosophy | en |
dc.subject | BX Christian Denominations | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BD | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BX | en |
dc.title | Transcendentality and conversation : on the Trinity and ‘word-exchange’ | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Divinity | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12803 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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