Giving One's Word by Michael Joseph Higgins - 9780813239484

Giving One's WordInterpersonal Love, Knowledge, and Self-Giving in Aquinas's Psychological Analogy for the Trinity\nAuthor(s): Michael Joseph Higgins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press, United States\nImprint: The Catholic University of America Press\nISBN-13: 9780813239484, 978-0813239484\nSynopsis\nAccording to the vast majority of recent Trinitarian theologians, to believe in the Trinity is to believe that God is Love: it is to believe in three divine Persons Who know each other, love each other, and give themselves to each other. St. Thomas Aquinas is rarely invoked as a patron of such a social approach to the Trinity. Aquinas's Trinitarian theology, after all, revolves around the immanent processions of a Word and Love within the unity of the divine essence. Many have assumed that this \""psychological analogy\"" is removed fromor even incompatible withinterpersonal knowledge, love, and self-giving. Some have concluded that Aquinas is therefore .