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Part I. Short Answer

Answer all five questions. Your answers should use most or all of each available line space. (5 questions)

Saint Augustine saw the Trinitarian image of God in these three operations of the human mind: ______________________________________

What does Filioque mean in English? _______________

For Richard of St. Victor, why must there be three persons in the Trinity? ____________________________________

According to St. Thomas, what are the two processions in the Trinity? ____________________

For Karl Rahner, what is the problem with using the word "Person" to talk about the members of the Trinity today? _______________________________________

Part II. Short Essay.

Answer any two of the following four questions. Write five full lines for your answer.

1. Write five lines about the missions of Son and Spirit in St. Augustine.

2. Write five lines about notions from Aristotle that Aquinas brought to his theology.

3. Write five lines about Divine poverty and self-emptying in Hans Urs Von Balthasar.

4. Write five lines about the Divine perichoresis in Kallistos Ware.

Part III. Essay.

Answer any two of the following four questions. Write eight lines for each of your answers.

1. Write eight lines about the notions of procession, relation, and person in Thomas Aquinas, or about the Trinity in St. Bonaventure.

2. Write eight lines about the Filioque controversy, including both the Western (Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) perspectives.

3. Write eight lines about the Trinitarian Image of God in the human mind in Augustine.

4. Write eight lines about what the Eastern perspective on the Trinity offered by Kallistos Ware.

Part IV. Extra Credit.

Answer any one of the following two questions. Write five lines for your answer.

1. Write five lines about how human relationships and society are supposed to be affected by the doctrine of the Trinity, drawing from any thinker, including Benedict XVI.

2. Write five lines about the Trinity in Richard of St. Victor.