Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword by Rowan Williams
Acknowledgements
Note to the Reader
Abbreviations
Introduction. In Search of Doctrinal History
CHAPTER 1
Locus Classicus
CHAPTER 2
From the Simple God to the Simple First Principle
CHAPTER 3
Irenaeus’s Critique of Valentinian Emission and the Proto-Trinitarian Problematic
CHAPTER 4
Monarchianism and the Fully Trinitarian Problematic
CHAPTER 5
Divine Simplicity as a Metaphysical-Ethical Synthesis in Origen
CHAPTER 6
Divine Simplicity as an Anti-Monarchian Principle of Differentiation between the Father and the Son
CHAPTER 7
Divine Simplicity as an Anti-Valentinian Principle of Unity between the Father and the Son
Epilogue. Toward a Prospective Historiography
Notes
Bibliography
Scripture Index
General Index