Part I. Short Answer. 30 Points. Answer all five questions. Your answers should use most or all of each available line space. (5 questions, 6 points apiece.) 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. 30 points. Answer any two of the following four questions (15 points apiece). 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. 40 points. Answer any two of the following four questions (20 points apiece). Write eight lines for each of your answers. 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. 5 points. 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. .

1. Part I. Short Answer. 30 Points.
Answer all five questions. Your answers should use most or all
of each available line space. (5 questions, 6 points apiece.)
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

2. “Person” to talk about the members of the Trinity today?
_______________________________________
Part II.
Short Essay. 30 points.
Answer any two of the following four questions (15 points
apiece). 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.

3. Write five lines about the Divine
perichoresis
in Kallistos Ware.
Part III.
Essay. 40 points.
Answer any two of the following four questions (20 points
apiece). Write eight lines for each of your answers.
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.

4. 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. 5 points.
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.