Assaad Elias Kattan

Persons in Relation

Theology

“Najib George Awad’s Persons in Relation is an excellent book, which takes the reader to the heart of the modern discussion on God and the Trinity, which started when—as the philosopher Hegel put it—substance was given away and the subject was set in its position. Brilliantly he presents this categorical development in the Christian concept of God: to conceive God as a subject. Awad shows the problems involved in this understanding. As well he informs excellently on the major positions, which have been put forward in the last two centuries, to overcome these problems. All this prepares the groundwork for Awad’s own plausible up-to-date concept of the Trinitarian God. Whoever wants to understand the modern discussion on the Trinity will profit immensely from Awad’s book." —Hans-Peter Grosshans University of Münster "Persons in Relation represents a thought-provoking contribution to the debate over the relevance of Trinitarian theology in a postmodern world. After critically analyzing the shortcomings of the Modernist understanding of selfhood and subjectivity, the author proceeds to show how postmodern theology is still largely subordinate to modernity when it comes to the relationship between theology and other scholarly disciplines and forms of inquiry. Ultimately, he pleads for a reconfiguration of this relationship after the pattern of the Trinity as a correlational model of relationality. Awad’s conclusion cannot be more challenging!”

Surviving Jewel

History & Biography

“This volume takes up an extremely challenging task: to tell the story of Christianity in the Middle East over more than two thousand years. . . . The story told here is not that of a remnant which draws its legitimacy from a remote and dilapidated past but of a surviving jewel both in interaction with its context—more particularly with an old yet still-fresh neighbor called Islam—and seeking to find appropriate answers to twenty-first-century questions and challenges.”

Transcendence and Understanding

Philosophy

Foreword

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