The Secret Influence of Neo-Thomism on the 20th Century Trinitarian Renaissance

I wrote a paper that is, in essay, distilling my Master's thesis into a more manageable (and updated) portion.  Here is the abstract:

In the revival of Trinitarian theology in the 20th century, several tropes were used: the distinction between Eastern and Western Trinitarianism, Rahner's Rule, and the West's "substance" ontology.  Yet our paper argues that not only were these categories wrong when used to map the tradition, they themselves have a particularly history that can be traced back to certain strands of neo-Thomism that in a variety of ways affected thinkers as diverse as John Zizioulas, Karl Rahner, Catherine LaCugna, Jurgen Moltmann, Vladimir Lossky, and many others.  As such a variety of historiographical tenets of the Trinitarian revival are undermined, not only opening the way back to a charitable engagement with the tradition.  But many of the constructive moves made in Trinitarian theology must be called in to question insofar as they are solutions to fake histories

If that piques your interest, head on over to my Academia.com page to check it out:

Gods, August and Otherwise: How Neo-Thomism Shaped the 20th Century Trinitarian Renaissance