Table of Contents — Knowing and the Trinity by Vern S. Poythress

Here is the Table of Contents for Knowing and the Trinity: How Perspectives in Human Knowledge Imitate the Trinity by Vern S. Poythress

List of Illustrations xi

Foreword by Sinclair B. Ferguson xvii

Introduction: Reflections of the Trinity xxi

Part 1: What Are Perspectives? 1

1. The Mystery of Perspectives 3

2. Spatial Perspectives 11

3. Personal Perspectives 15

4. Thematic Perspectives 24

5. Commonalities in Perspectives 37

Part 2: The Trinity 41

6. Basic Biblical Teaching about the Trinity 43

7. Coinherence 52

8. Analogies for Relations in the Trinity 63

9. Comparing Analogies for the Trinity 79

10. Knowledge of the Trinity 93

Part 3: Perspectives from the Trinity 107

11. Perspectives on Reflections 109

12. Perspectives from Trinitarian Analogies 129

13. Perspectives on Ethics 142

14. Perspectives on Lordship 152

15. Perspectives on Office 163

Part 4: Classifying Perspectives 169

16. A Triad for Revelation 171

17. Trinitarian Classification of Perspectives 179

Part 5: Applying Perspectives to Theological Questions 191

18. Transcendence and Immanence 193

19. Attributes of God as Perspectives 197

20. God’s Acting in Time and Space 201

21. God’s Creating 205

22. A Mystery of Indwelling 213

23. The Third-Man Argument 217

24. The Generation of the Son 222

25. The Procession of the Holy Spirit 227

26. Classes, and the Problem of the One and the Many 236

27. Human Responsibility 247

28. Conceptual Growth 251

Part 6: The Nature of Perspectives 259

29. Distinctives of Perspectival Reasoning 261

30. Perspectival Knowledge in the Trinity 270

31. Personal Perspectives and Thematic Perspectives 275

32. Attributes of God and Perspectives on God 282

33. Classical Perspectives concerning God 286

34. Perspectival Context for Attributes of God 293

35. Challenges to Theological Reasoning 299

Part 7: Deriving Theology 305

36. Expanded Classification of Perspectives 307

37. Three Persons and Triads 315

38. Deriving Attributes of God 332

39. Deriving Perspectives 338

Conclusion 349

Appendix A: Further Organization of Perspectives 351

Appendix B: Covenantal Reflections 359

Appendix C: Patterns of Growth 368

Appendix D: Views for Theorizing 374

Appendix E: Triads of Metaperspectives 382

Appendix F: Perspectives for Language Theory 388

Appendix G: Three Dimensions of Space 399

Appendix H: Three Dimensions of Time 403

Appendix I: Order within a Triad 406

Appendix J: A Triad for Coinherence 416

Glossary 421 Bibliography 439

Index of Scripture 445

Index of Subjects and Names 449