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Trinity Beyond Revelation, Salvation and Relationality: On the ‘Severe and Novel Trinitarian Doctrine’ of Katherine Sonderegger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2025

Scott Cowdell
Scott Cowdell*
Affiliation:
Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia
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Email: scowdell@csu.edu.au
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Abstract

Episcopalian theologian Katherine Sonderegger regards the Trinitarian persons as fulfilling without superseding Old Testament approaches to God’s processional nature. Her metaphysically engaged scriptural mysticism challenges the Trinitarian revival with its human-focused attention to soteriology and epistemological foundationalism. But has Sonderegger escaped or merely displaced these core concerns of modern theology? And can true knowledge of God and theosis be had apart from salvation history – a challenge posed by the work of René Girard.

Keywords

Economy of salvationepistemological foundationalismmetaphysical realismRené Girardrevelationset theorytheosisTrinitarian revival
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Anglican Studies , First View , pp. 1 - 8
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust

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References

1 Research Seminar at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, 21 November 2023.

2 London: SCM Press, 1983.

3 Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology, Volume 1: The Doctrine of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015). Sonderegger’s two volumes are referenced in the text by volume and page number(s) (e.g., 1:24; 2:24, 125–26).

4 Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology, Volume 2. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2020).

5 Chris E.W. Green, ‘God is not a Sacrifice: A Review of Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology: Volume 2’, The Other Journal 33 (2022), pp. 1–10 (5).

6 René Girard, Violence and the Sacred (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977).

7 René Girard, Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World (London: Athlone Press, 1987).

8 See the history of philosophy assessed accordingly in John Deely, Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).

9 Walter Kasper, ‘Christology and Anthropology’, in Theology & Church (London: SCM Press, 2012), pp.73–93 (92).

10 Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology, Volume 1: The Triune God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 64.

11 See also René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001).