Richard of Saint Victor, On the Trinity

English Translation and Commentary

Angelici

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781621891284
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Very few in the history of the church have not struggled with the dogma of the Trinity. Those who have not dismissed it as incomprehensible gibberish have found it a battlefield for division and misunderstanding. Even Christians, who adhere to the faith of the Creeds, have often found such dogma difficult to grasp. Richard of Saint Victor, a twelfth-century Scottish monk and Prior in the Abbey of Saint Victor, is emblematic in this struggle: I have often read that there is... [only] one God... I have also read... that he is one and triune... But I do not remember having read anything on the evidences for these assertions.Richard's theological response stems from a profoundly mystical life of prayer, which, in the Spirit, seeks to involve the mind, in continuation with the great Augustinian and Anselmian tradition. Ultimately, he presents a trinitarian model, intelligible to a Western context but which could also awake admiration from Greek theologians. Today Richard's dogmatics could represent a bridge for dialogue between different traditions.For the first time this theological masterpiece is being made available, unabridged, in English to allow a broader theological public to benefit from Richard's accomplishments. The translation offered here attempts to provide a clear and flowing text, while remaining as literally faithful as possible to the original Latin.

Table of contents

• Richard of Saint Victor, On the Trinity
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Part 1: Introduction and Commentary
• Part 2: On the Trinity
• Book One
• Book Two
• Book Three
• Book Four
• Book Five
• Book Six
• Bibliography