For a Trinitarian Ontology of the Person

Abstract

The article examines the development of the concept of person so as to offer new perspectives and keys of interpretation for an ontology of the person in the light of Christological revelation. The hermeneutical circle between the theological and the anthropological meanings of the concept of person has its nucleus in Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Contemporary understanding introduces the categories of intersubjectivity and communion, which allow for a re-reading of the metaphysics of being as a metaphysics of agápe in the light of Christ.