The seminar is dedicated to pondering the mystery of God’s oneness. Oneness is a philosophical category that, historically speaking, precedes Christian revelation. At the same time, Christ’s revelation of the Triune God gives a new and far deeper meaning to the philosophical account of the One. For Christianity there is no divine unity without Trinity and vice-versa. The divine unity that Christianity affirms is Unitas in Trinitate just as, at the same time, it upholds the inseparability of the Trinity from the unity: Trinitas in Unitate. In light of Christian revelation, the questions to consider are “what is the One?” and “in what sense is the Triune mystery One?” These questions require, among other things, reflecting on the meaning of otherness (or alterity) and the negative. They also suggest reconsidering the meaning of the union with the One (henosis). The seminar approaches these questions through the reading of several key texts of Plato, Plotinus, Aquinas, and Rosmini.
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Antonio López, F.S.C.B.
Vice President
Provost
Professor of Systematic Theology
Rev. López teaches and writes in the areas of trinitarian theology, metaphysics, theological anthropology, and marriage. He serves as editor of Humanum Academic Press and of the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła and John Paul II, a continuing series from CUA Press.
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