The Trinity and Anthropology

Introductory notes

Abstract

This article intends to respond to two questions. What is the significance for the mission of the Church – in general, and specifically in Latin America – of a theological study of the relationship between the trinitarian doctrine and anthropology? What is the most effective and fruitful method for such a study that will favour positive results? The answer to the first question will be articulated in three points dealing with 1) how the advent of God-Trinity constitutes the horizon of truth of human history; 2) how this implies the invention and the functioning of the hermeneutical circle between theology and anthropology that today needs to express itself, faced with the urgent challenges of our time; 3) in the proposition of an adequate trinitarian ontology. The response to the second question expresses the importance of the inter- and trans-disciplinary context in reaching this goal, and at the same time of the existential epistemology that needs to qualify theological knowing.