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Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau
By Bernard J. Cooke, S.J., S.T.D.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1969
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Library of Congress Catalog Number 70-81373
Copyright 1969 By the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau Marquette University
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, The National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas whose feast day is March 7. These lectures are customarily given on the first or second Sunday of March.
The 1969 Aquinas Lecture Beyond Trinity was delivered March 2 in the Peter A. Brooks Memorial Union by Rev. Bernard J. Cooke, S.J., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Theology, Marquette University.
Fr. Cooke was born in Norway, Michigan, on May 31, 1922. He earned the A.B. at St. Louis University in 1944 and the M.A. in 1946, the S.T.D. at the Institut Catholique de Pairs in 1956. He taught Pastoral Theology at the Grand Seminaire in Paris in 1955 and 1956.
Fr. Cooke joined the Marquette Faculty in the spring of 1957 and became
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Chairman of the Department of Theology in 1958. Under his direction the department developed a full graduate program in Religious Studies.
Fr. Cooke's interest in ecumenism and in reforming the teaching of Theology has extended his influence far beyond Marquette University. In 1960 he was elected to the two-year presidency of the National Society of Catholic College Teachers of Sacred Doctrine and at present is an editorial associate for the new Journal of Ecumenical Studies. In the summer of 1967 he lectured in Japan on the Theology of Vatican II.
Fr. Cooke's publications include: Formation of Faith, Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1965; Christian Sacraments and Christian Personality, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966; Christian Involvement, Chicago: Argus, 1966; New Dimensions in Christian Life, Wilkes-Barre: Dimension Books, 1968; articles in The Catholic Mind, Christian Century, Theological Studies, Theology Digest, Ave
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Maria, Perspectives, and The Modern Schoolman.
To these publications Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: Beyond Trinity.
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Beyond Trinity
In a 1960 essay that appeared in a Festschrift for Bishop Stolz of Mainz,1 Karl Rahner remarks that there has been practically no instrinsic development of the classic treatise on the Trinity since the Council of Florence. A sad situation, if the judgment is literally true, since it would mean that theologyif it is really that: the study of Godhas been static for close to a half millenium. There is much to say for Rahner's negative appraisal, as we will see shortly, but his own article with its suggestions for a "new look" at the theology of the Trinity is one of the indications that something is stirring in theological thought, something deep and far-reaching enough to give promise of a basic reconsideration of our Christian theology.
It is this exciting promise of the most important theological development in centuries, perhaps the most important in the
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Church's life up to this point, that I would like to explore with you this afternoon. That something important is happening in Christian theology seems fairly evident: sacramental theology is being radically and quite rapidly rethought in terms of that which is most proper to sacraments, their symbolic reality;2 a number of elements of Christian existence that were previously studied in somewhat dispersed and artificial isolation from one another are now being integrally studied in what has come to be called "Christian anthropology";3 theological ecclesiology, rather than canonical classification of Church offices or polemic justification of denominational claims, is coming into its own4 to the extent of exercising a major influence on Vatican II. But perhaps the clearest indication of the radical nature of today's theological endeavor is the fact that the question of God has come center stage.5
Without attaching exaggerated importance to their insights, the so-called "God is dead" theologians6 are an indication of the fact that the God-question
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is squarely before us. The Christian theologian has been challenged to explain to our contemporary world the God in whom Christians believe, the God we have pointed to with the term "the Trinity." Obviously, it will not do to repeat unchanged the verbal formulations of the past, particularly if, as is just possible, they are less than totally adequate. The reality of God to which previous generations of Christian faith were directed remains unchanged, but only that reality; theology faces the task of providing an understanding of that object of faith which takes full account of the scientific, historical, critical advances of modern thought. In a previous stage of Christian theology, actually a very early one, the kind of human categorizing that found expression in the word "trinity" helped Christian faith avoid some of the pitfalls of error and superficiality. Recognizing the fact that that element of intelligibility in the notion "trinity" which truly corresponds to the reality of God as known in Christian faith must be preserved in our own present-
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