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ECUMENICAL TRINITARIAN REFLECTIONS AND THE ‘DE RÉGNON PARADIGM’: A PROBE INTO RECOVERING THE SOCIAL-TRINITARIAN EMPHASES OF THE CAPPADOCIAN FATHERS

(Ekumenické trinitárne reflexie a „de Régnonova paradigma“: pokus o obnovenie sociálno-trinitárnych dôrazov kapadóckych otcov)

Abstract: The article examines the so-called «Social model of the Trinity» and its implications for theology, religious anthropology, and ecclesiology in its social dimension. The Trinitarian approach of the Cappadocian Fathers is lifted up as a potential source of inspiration for a more complex and dynamic understanding of the Trinity in the West, urging the West to learn from and integrate critically its valuable emphases. The article is constructively critical to the Latin philosophical-theological approach to the definition of the Trinity, suggesting, however, that the commonly accepted ‘de Régnon Paradigm’ among most Western scholars does not reflect de Régnon’s original intentions and does not do justice to the natural affinity and even overlapping of ideas and emphases between the socalled ‘Latin’ and ‘Greek’ approaches to the philosophical-theological question of the Trinity.

Authors: Valčo, Michal – Petro, Marek – Kardis, Mária – Shagieva, Rozalina V. – Kuznetsova, Maria A. – Kryukova, Nina I.

DOI: 10.17846/CL.2019.12.1.76-89

Publication order reference:
Prof. PhDr. Michal Valčo, PhD.; University of Presov in Presov, Greek Catholic Theological Faculty, Ul. biskupa Gojdiča 2, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. ThDr. Marek Petro, PhD.; University of Presov in Presov, Greek Catholic Theological Faculty, Ul. biskupa Gojdiča 2, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
doc. ThDr. Mária Kardis, PhD.; University of Presov in Presov, Greek Catholic Theological Faculty, Ul. biskupa Gojdiča 2, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Dr. Rozalina V. Shagieva; State University of Management, 99 Ryazanskiy Prospect, 109542 Moscow, Russian Federation; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Assoc. Prof. Maria A. Kuznetsova, PhD.; I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), 8 Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Dr. Nina I. Kryukova; Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, 36 Stremyannyi Pereulok, 115093 Moscow, Russian Federation; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Source: Konštatínove listy, 2019, vol.: 12, issue: 1, pages: 76-89 (PDF file)

Keywords: de Régnon paradigm, Social Trinitarianism, Cappadocian fathers, Latin Trinitarianism, Greek Trinitarianism

Language: ENGLISH