A recent article by Matteo Raffaelli, published in Modern Theology (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/moth.70075), engages contemporary debates in Trinitarian ontology and relational metaphysics. In his study, Raffaelli explicitly refers to the TRIERTIUM 2025 Conference and to the TRIERTIUM Research Group, situating his argument regarding Erwin Schadel’s Trinitarian thought within this broader intellectual context.
Raffaelli participated in the TRIERTIUM 2025 Conference, where questions of Trinitarian ontology, relationality, and transdisciplinary synthesis were discussed in dialogue with philosophy, theology, and the arts. His article reflects themes developed in that setting. In the published text, he characterizes the TRIERTIUM initiative as follows:
“The Triertium Research Group, …, proposes a new Trinitarian ontology rooted in the Czech tradition of pansophy. Inspired by Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), who coined the term Triertium to describe the triadic synthesis of all sciences and arts, the group explores relational thinking grounded in Trinitarian participation. Influenced by the Czech Trinitarian Comenius-School (notably Karel and Pavel Floss), its work spans philosophy, theology, and the arts, integrating them into transdisciplinary projects that critically engage the spiritual and cultural challenges of modernity.”
The reference indicates that the conceptual framework developed within TRIERTIUM forms part of the ongoing scholarly discussion on participatory and relational approaches to Trinitarian thought.
