Matthew Levering 
Scripture and Metaphysics [PDF ebook] 
Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology

This book makes a major contribution to contemporary theological
and philosophical debates, bridging scriptural and metaphysical
approaches to the triune God.

* * Bridges the gap between scriptural and metaphysical approaches
to biblical narratives.

* Retrieves Aquinas’s understanding of theology as
contemplative wisdom.

* Structured around Aquinas’s treatise on the triune God in
his ‘Summa Theologiae’.

* Argues that intellectual contemplation is part of a broader
spiritual journey towards a better understanding of God.

* Contributes to the current resurgence of Thomistic theology in
both Protestant and Catholic circles.

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Setting the Scene: Theological Ends 12

Chapter 1 Sacra Doctrina: Wisdom, Scripture, and Metaphysics
23

1 Wisdom 28

2 Theologizing as a Wisdom-Exercise 34

3 Isaiah and St. John the Evangelist as Contemplatives 39

Chapter 2 YHWH and Being 47

1 R. Kendall Soulen’s Post-Supersessionist Trinitarian Theology
53

2 Aquinas on Being and YHWH 57

Chapter 3 Scripture and Metaphysics in the Theology of God’s
Knowledge and Will 75

1 Jon D. Levenson on the God of Israel 77

2 St. Thomas Aquinas on the Knowledge and Will of God in His
Unity 83

Chapter 4 The Paschal Mystery and Sapiential Theology of the
Trinity 110

1 N. T. Wright and Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the Identity of
God 112

2 Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Cross as Analog for the Trinity
120

3 The Paschal Mystery as Revelatory of the Trinity in Aquinas
132

Chapter 5 Scripture and the Psychological Analogy for the
Trinity 144

1 Aquinas and the Psychological Analogy 149

Chapter 6 Biblical Exegesis and Sapiential Naming of the
Divine Persons 165

1 The Person of the Father 169

2 The Person of the Son 179

3 The Person of the Holy Spirit 185

Chapter 7 Essence, Persons, and the Question of Trinitarian
Metaphysics 197

1 Trinitarian Ontology in Clarke, Zizioulas, and Hütter
202

2 Trinitarian Ontology and Aquinas’s Approach 213

Conclusion 236

Index 242

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Matthew Levering is Assistant Professor of Theology at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is the author of Christ’s Fulfilment of Torah and Temple (2002), coauthor of Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (2002), and coeditor of Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas (forthcoming). He is the coeditor of the English edition of Nova et Vetera, and serves on the editorial board of the Catholic University of America’s Thomas Aquinas in Translation series. He has most recently edited and introduced On the Priesthood: Classic and Contemporary Texts (2003).