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The 20th-century quest for a Trinitarian ontology was associated with a critical reconsideration of the modern philosophy of the subject. However, this reconsideration did not reject the question of subjectivity itself. It rather rejected any narrowed ontological assumptions that would identify the very ground of subjectivity with a univocal eidetic structure of being. In its most advanced forms, the modern and postmodern philosophy of the subject proved to be radically structuralist, relational, or even differentialist. While many attempts at Trinitarian ontology have faced this challenge either by adapting Christian dialogical personalism or reviving older metaphysical traditions and notions, e.g., the analogy, the participation, and the concept of the subsisting person, Klaus Hemmerle emphasised in his Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology (1976) above all the ontological primacy of the relational self-giving (Sich-Geben), explicated phenomenologically. Every subsisting being, including the human person, gains its concrete contour only from within this relational process. But does this relational reappearance of the human person mean its self-alienated completion, or rather its complete alienation? How can this relational account of the human person be related to older metaphysical, theological, and personalistic traditions? Does Hemmerle avoid the dangerous dissolution of the human person as a mere processual moment of the whole community and the world?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we will describe and systematically discuss the heterogeneous and diversified structure of the current theological and philosophical debate concerning Trinitarian ontology, or Trinitarian metaphysics. Our point of departure will be the New Trinitarian Ontologies conference held in Cambridge in September 2019. Recapitulating the most significant contributions presented at this conference, we will identify the key approaches to the problem of a Trinitarian revision of ontology and gradually reconstruct their main arguments. At the end of our paper, we will be concerned with the mutual relations between these approaches. This should serve to clarify to what extent the postmodern fragmentary and pluralistic discourse of the New Trinitarian Ontologies conference actually converges with both the philosophical and theological core of Trinitarian ontology, to the self-giving of the Triune God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, discussing the way metaphysics and Christology relate to each other, we will attempt to shed the light on the problem of the ontological mediation of the "whole truth" of Jesus Christ. Our argument will be developed in dialogue with selected Christological proposals of German-speaking Catholic theology of the second half of the twentieth century (Rahner, Balthasar, Kasper, Hünermann) and, above all, with Trinitarian-ontological and Trinitarian-Christological approach of Klaus Hemmerle (1929-1994). Hemmerle's most well-known essay "Theses for a Trinitarian Ontology" (Thesen zu einer trinitarischen Ontologie) deals with the problem of new genuinely Christian Trinitarian ontology. This simultaneously theological and philosophical approach could help us articulate the "whole truth" of Jesus Christ in a new, convincing manner. In conclusion, following Hemmerle, we will suggest where Christology becomes absolutely indispensable in relation to ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]