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

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

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).