| Preface | xi |
| Introduction: Holy Trinity, Our Liberation Program | xv |
| I | In the beginning is the communion of the Three not the solitude of a One | |
| 1. | From the solitude of a One to the communion of the Three | 1 |
| 2. | In the beginning is communion | 3 |
| 3. | Why only three divine Persons? Why not two or just one? | 4 |
| 4. | It's dangerous to say: One God in heaven and one head on earth | 7 |
| 5. | A disintegrated experience of the blessed Trinity | 9 |
| 6. | The same glory to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit | 11 |
| 7. | The blessed Trinity is a mystery ever to be known anew | 12 |
| 8. | Perichoresis: The interpenetration of the three divine Persons | 14 |
| 9. | The Father's two hands, the Son and the Holy Spirit | 16 |
| II | The revealing of the Trinity | |
| 10. | How has the Father of infinite kindness been revealed? | 18 |
| 11. | How has the Son, our brother, been revealed? | 20 |
| 12. | How has the Holy Spirit, our strength, been revealed? | 22 |
| 13. | The trinitarian awareness of the early Christians | 23 |
| 14. | The Old Testament preparation for the revelation of the Blessed Trinity | 25 |
| III | Human reason and the Blessed Trinity | |
| 15. | How Christians have expressed the Blessed Trinity | 28 |
| 16. | Three ways of understanding the Blessed Trinity | 30 |
| 17. | Key words for expressing faith in the Blessed Trinity | 32 |
| 18. | Erroneous ways of understanding the Blessed Trinity | 33 |
| IV | Human imagination and the Blessed Trinity | |
| 19. | Believing also with our imagination | 36 |
| 20. | The human person as image of the Trinity | 38 |
| 21. | The human family, symbol of the Trinity | 39 |
| 22. | Society as image of the Trinity | 41 |
| 23. | The church, great symbol of the Trinity | 43 |
| 24. | The world, sacrament of the Trinity | 44 |
| V | What the Blessed Trinity is: Communion of life and love among the divine Three | |
| 25. | The Trinity is an eternal communication of life | 47 |
| 26. | I-Thou-We: The Blessed Trinity | 49 |
| 27. | The Trinity as an eternal self-communication | 51 |
| 28. | The Blessed Trinity is the perfect community | 53 |
| 29. | Male and female within the Blessed Trinity | 55 |
| 30. | Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist together from all eternity | 57 |
| 31. | In the Trinity all relationships are threefold | 58 |
| 32. | Three suns but a single light: Such is the Blessed Trinity | 60 |
| VI | The communion of the Trinity: Critique and inspiration for society and church | |
| 33. | Beyond capitalism and real socialism | 63 |
| 34. | From a church-as-society to a church-as-communion | 65 |
| VII | The Person of the Father: Mystery of tenderness | |
| 35. | Who is the Father? Mystery of tenderness | 68 |
| 36. | The Father, eternal root of all sister-and-brotherhood | 70 |
| 37. | Motherly Father, and fatherly Mother | 72 |
| 38. | The Father, principle without principle | 74 |
| 39. | How the Father appears: In the mystery of all things | 75 |
| VIII | The Person of the Son: Mystery of communication and principle of liberation | |
| 40. | Who is the Son? Eternal communication | 78 |
| 41. | The eternal Son of the eternal Father in the Holy Spirit | 80 |
| 42. | The male and female of the Son and our Brother | 81 |
| 43. | The mission of the Son: Liberate and make all sons and daughters | 83 |
| IX | The Person of the Holy Spirit: Mystery of love, and in-breaking of the new | |
| 44. | Who is the Holy Spirit? The driving force of full liberation | 86 |
| 45. | The Spirit is always united with the Son and the Father | 88 |
| 46. | The simultaneity of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son | 90 |
| 47. | The feminine dimension of the Holy Spirit | 92 |
| 48. | Mission of the Holy Spirit: To unify and create the new | 93 |
| 49. | The unique relationship between the Holy Spirit and Mary | 95 |
| X | The Trinity in heaven and the Trinity on earth: The internal history of the Trinity reflected in the external history of creation | |
| 50. | As it was in the beginning: The eternity of the Trinity | 98 |
| 51. | The Trinity in heaven manifests itself on earth | 100 |
| 52. | The glory and joy of the Trinity | 101 |
| 53. | Creation projected toward communion | 103 |
| 54. | Each divine Person helps in creating the universe | 105 |
| 55. | Signs of the Trinity under the shadow of history | 107 |
| 56. | Now and forever: The Trinity in creation and creation in the Trinity | 109 |
| Conclusion: Summary of trinitarian doctrine: The whole in many fragments | 111 |
| Glossary: Technical theological terms used for discussion of the Trinity | 117 |
