The Trinity and Creation in Augustine -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Ecological Problem of Dominion and the Doctrine of God -- Ecologically Informed Theological Ethics:Interrelatedness in Ecology -- The Problem of Hierarchy in Modern Theology -- Part I -- 1. The Contemporary Critique of Augustine -- The Forms of Eastern and Western Trinitarian Thought -- Augustine's Western Form of the Trinity: Modalism -- The Trinity and the Doctrine of Creation: Cause and Effect -- The Scriptural Basis of Augustine's Trinitarian Doctrine -- 2. Augustine's Doctrine of the Trinity -- Subordinationism and the Divine Missions -- Monarchy, Simplicity, and Relations of Origin:Augustine's Trinitarian Logic -- Modalism -- 3. Augustine and Hierarchy in the Trinity -- Hierarchy and the Trinitarian Relations -- Hierarchy and the Divine Substance -- Part II -- 4. The Trinitarian Founding of Creation -- The Structure of The Literal Meaning of Genesis -- Naming the Trinity in Genesis 1 -- How the Trinity Founds the Creation -- How the Trinity Converts and Perfects Creatures -- 5. Trinitarian Governance and Creaturely Participation in God -- Participation in Augustine's Theology -- God's Providential Governance and Creaturely Motion -- Participation in the Trinity through Measure, Number, and Weight -- Formless Matter and the Question of Passivity -- 6. Resting in God, the Image of God,and Dominion -- Resting in God -- Use and Enjoyment -- The Work of Human Dominion and the Image of God -- Dominion and Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Scripture Index.