CC BY-NC 4.0Brown, Teresa Grace2025-10-162025-10-1620242024-09-051468-002510.1111/moth.12952https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14802/1704The recent translation into English of Klaus Hemmerle's Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology has led to a renewed interest in ontology and in the construction of new trinitarian ontologies. In his Theses, Hemmerle argues that a new trinitarian ontology discloses a new order of things: the analogy of Being becomes an analogy of the Trinity. A trinitarian ontology, therefore, turns on an axis of relationality and its impetus is reflexive and performative. In this article, I take up Hemmerle's argument that dialogue with theological anthropology is essential in the development of a trinitarian ontology. I engage the theological anthropologies of Kwok Pui-Lan and Rita Nakashima Brock, whose work reflects a relational turn in theological anthropology, and bring these into dialogue with Hemmerle's insights. In doing so, I consider the implications of contemporary critical consciousness for thinking the human-divine relationship and argue for a Christian trinitarian praxis which explicitly works to subvert narratives and structures that perpetuate the silencing of diverse discourses.Klaus Hermmerletrinitytheological anthropologytrinitarian ontologyNew trinitarian ontologies? Trinitarian theology, theological anthropology and contemporary critical consciousness in dialogueJournal articlePublished as ‘gold’ (paid) open accessOpenPUB0201100256