Table of Contents

The following is my proposed outline for what's yet to come in this study. For now, it will serve as a preview of things to come. As I actually write things, I plan to keep this updated and use it as a table of contents.

Preface
Why Bother?

1. God Talk


• The Ultimate Answer


• Let's Talk About God


• Mystery


• The Basic Problem


• Metaphor and Heresy


• Creeds


• Who Is God?


2. Old Testament Hints


• Two Ways of Reading


• Elohim


• Shema


• God As Father


• Lady Wisdom


• Deuterocanonical Wisdom


• God's Holy Spirit


• The Word of the Lord


• The Angel of the Lord


• God's Trinitarian Character


• The Hospitality of Abraham


3. God in the New Testament


• God in the Life of Christ


• The Virgin Conception


• The Baptism of Christ


• The Transfiguration


• The Resurrection


• Early Christian Liturgy


• Lord


• Son of Man


• Son of God


• The Holy Spirit


• Divine Relations


• John's Prologue


• Revelation


4. Greek Philosophy as Preparatio Trinitas


• The One and the Many


• Heraclitus' Fire


• Nous


• Plato and the Realm of Ideas


• Aristotle and Immanent Substance


• Stoic Pantheism


• Neo-Pythagorean Theology


• Neo-Platonism


5. The Road to Nicea


• Early Christian Writings


• Irenaeus of Lyon


• Early Heresies


• Tertullian and Origen


• Arius


• Alexander of Alexandria


• The Council of Nicea


• Continuing Problems


6. The Person of Christ


• "Who Do You Say That I Am?"


• Early Problems


• Athanasius


• Apollinarius


• Theodore of Mopsuestia


• Theotokos


• Further Problems


• The Council of Chalcedon


• Human and Divine Knowledge


• Messiah, Then and Now


• Pre-Existence


• At the Right Hand of the Father


7. God For Us


• God and Jesus


• Knowing God


• Trinitarian Prayer


• The Paschal Mystery


• Being Like God


• Liberation Theology


• Feminist Theology


• Trinity and Ecology