Life in the Trinity: The Mystery of God and Human Deification

by J. McCullough; Philip Krill

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2022

Overview

Informed by Scripture and the church fathers, and inspired by the ressourcement theology of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Pope Benedict XVI, this book advances new insight and practical application of the recent retrieval of Trinitarian theology and its vision of human transformation known as deification. Father Philip Krill contributes to a growing retrieval of Trinitarian Christianity and a synthesis of the Western and Eastern theological traditions. A final section on theosis, or deification, rounds out this exploration of God’s full intentions for the redemption of humanity.

Praise for Life in the Trinity

If we are created in the triune God’s own image and likeness, should we not learn to live like the persons of the Trinity? The only path to true human excellence lies precisely here: to surrender to Trinitarian love and so become self-gift. This is why Fr. Krill and James McCullough’s most recent work is so important, explaining profoundly how following Jesus Christ is really to allow the Trinity’s own love be the lens through which Christians see and judge everything else.

——David Meconi, SJ, author of Called to Be Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification

Product Details

• Title: Life in the Trinity: The Mystery of God and Human Deification
• Authors: J. McCullough, Philip Krill
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 200
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781532695742, 9781532695735, 153269573X, 9781532695728, 1532695721, 1532695748
• Resource ID: LLS:9781532695742
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T17:44:06Z

About the Authors

Philip Krill is a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. He is the author of several books, including More Than Conquerors: The Pauline Mysticism of Romans 8 and La Point Vierge: Meditations on the Mystery of Presence.



James McCullough (PhD, University of St Andrews) teaches theology and biblical studies in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. He is the author of Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation.