Intimately Forsaken: A Trinitarian Christology of the Cross

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction: Cathedral Architecture and the Trinity
First Pillar: The Meaning of ‘Forsaken’ in Mark 15:34
	Exegesis and Theology of the Crucifixion Narratives
	What Does ἐγκατέλιπές Mean?
Second Pillar: Communication of Idioms and Historic Interpretation of the Cry
	Cyril of Alexandria and Asymmetric Christological Predication
		Asymmetry
	John of Damascus and Reformed–Lutheran Debate on the Communication of Idioms
		The Reformed/Lutheran Debate
		The Communication of Idioms and Divine Impassibility
		Twombly’s Thesis
		Thomas Aquinas’ Summary of the Communication of Idioms
	Augustine and the Absence of the Communication of Idioms in Patristic Interpretation of the Cry
		Responding to the Charge of Theological Novelty
		Conclusions
Third Pillar: Divine Impassibility and the Suffering of Christ
	Kant, Hegel, Luther, Moltmann
	Aquinas and the Classical Account of the Divine Nature
Fourth Pillar: Trinitarian Distinctions
	What Is a Divine Person? From Boethius to Aquinas
		Boethius’ Definition of Person and Richard of St Victor’s Modifications
		Thomas Aquinas
		Aquinas on Subsistent Relations
		Rahner’s Critique of Aquinas
	What Is the Difference Between Persons and Nature in the Trinity?
		Scholastic Distinctions
		Formal or Modal?
		Problems with the Real Distinction Between Divine Persons
	Resisting Social Accounts of the Trinity
		Summary and Conclusions
Tower and Foundations: The Impassible Sufferer, Intimately Forsaken
	Persons Relate and Experience in Natures
	Perichoresis and the Undivided Works of the Triune Persons at the Cross
	Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Conclusions: The Trinitarian Foundations of Scripture and Theology
	The Trinitarian Shape of Scripture and the Generation of the Son
	Redoublement in Theological Language
	Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Ancient Sources
Modern Sources
Index