'Ego et Pater Unum Sumus': El Misterio de la Trinidad en Guillermo de Saint-Thierry. By MARIANO RUIZ CAMPOS.

Abstract

This is a careful study of an important late eleventh- and early twelfth-century figure writing about a central doctrine of the Christian faith. This is not an area in which it is easy to say a great deal that is new but there is value in a fresh analysis of such clarity. The author characterizes the limitations of his attempt and its claims to originality in a discussion at the outset (p. 14), emphasizing the importance of seeking to examine the whole span of William's work insofar as it touches on the theology of the Trinity. He has looked at it here from every side. He begins with a brief biographical study of William and the status quaestionis. The book is then divided into two main parts. The first deals with a cluster of works written before William's principal discussions of the Trinity, works of the rather cerebral Augustinian spirituality which characterized the period (De contemplando Deo; De natura et dignitate amoris; De sacramento altaris; De natura corporis et animae). There follows a chapter on William's exegesis of the Song of Songs and of Romans and on his Meditativae Orationes.