The Place of the Spirit: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Location: 197 (Princeton Theological Monograph)

Description: Is there any way to talk theologically about the Trinity and place? What might the placedness of creation have to do with Gods triunity? In The Place of the Spirit Sarah Morice-Brubaker considers how anxieties about place have influenced Trinitarian theology--both what it is asked to do and the language in which it is expressed. When one is nervous about collapsing God into created horizons she suggests one is apt to come up with a model of trinity that refuses place. Distance becomes a primary way of situating the divine persons in relation to each other. Conversely those theologians who wish to avoid a too-remote God likewise recruit Trinitarian language to suit that purpose. They too give that language a placial gloss expressing triunity in terms of coinherence and mutual indwelling. And yet suggests Morice-Brubaker the question What is place and how can one talk about God and place? is underdetermined within much contemporary Trinitarian thought. Thankfully this question has received full-on attention in other areas of ethics philosophy and systematic theology. This book calls for Trinitarian thought to avail itself of those insights and offers some ways in which it may do so.