Echoes of Coinherence: Trinitarian Theology and Science Together

This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it)
through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible
identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion. It modestly proposes
that Trinitarian theology, and especially the coinherent natures of the
Son in the incarnation, provides the metaphysic or "theory of
everything" that manifests itself in the subject matter of science. The
presence of the image of the triune God in humanity and of traces of
this God in the non-human creation are discussed, highlighting
ontological resonances between God and creation (resonances between the
being of God and his creation), such as goodness,
immensity-yet-particularity, intelligibility, agency, relationality, and
beauty. This Trinitarian reality suggests there should be a similarity
also with respect to how we know in theology and science (critical
realism), something reflected in the history of ideas in each. These
resonances lead to the conclusion that the disciplines of theology and
science are, in fact, coinherent, not conflicted. This involves
recognition of both the mutuality of these vocations and also,
importantly, their particularity. Science, its own distinct guild, yet
finds its place ensconced within an encyclopedic theology, and subject
to first-order, credal theology.