New Book Announcement: Eduard Fiedler Publishes Kinder der Trinität – Eine trinitarische Ontologie des metaphysischen Kindseins
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new monograph by Eduard Fiedler, titled Kinder der Trinität – Eine trinitarische Ontologie des metaphysischen Kindseins (Alber Verlag / Nomos).
The book offers an original contribution to contemporary philosophical theology by developing a Trinitarian ontology of metaphysical childhood (metaphysisches Kindsein). Drawing on classical metaphysics, patristic and scholastic sources, and modern philosophical debates, Fiedler explores childhood not merely as an anthropological or developmental category, but as a fundamental ontological mode grounded in Trinitarian relationality.
“For a child, everything is new and beautiful. While the beauty of childhood may inspire a metaphysics of beauty, its vulnerability makes such metaphysics problematic. In response to the scandal of innocent suffering that disrupts the beauty of being, an anti-metaphysical aesthetics was developed in modernity. Contrary to various forms of continental philosophy, this book argues that the incomprehensible suffering of innocent children is not immanent but relational—and thus analogous to the equally incomprehensible love of the Son of God, who takes this suffering upon Himself. A metaphysics of beauty must take the form of a new theological metaphysics: a Trinitarian ontology of metaphysical childhood.”
Although an academic philosophical work, it was written under very serious personal circumstances and bears experiential witness to the metaphysical reality of human being as a child of the Trinity.
This volume is published in German and constitutes the third volume in the editorial series Studies on Triadic Ontology and Trinitarian Philosophy, which is dedicated to advancing systematic research at the intersection of metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of relation.
More information about the book, including bibliographical details, is available at the publisher’s website:
https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/kinder-der-trinitaet-gr-978-3-495-99115-2
