Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Background to community and Trinity -- Purpose, significance, and procedure adopted -- Scope and limitation of the book -- The African tradition of community: what is it? -- Evolution of Nigeria as a nation-state -- Bibliography -- 2 Major African communal structural evils -- Destructive patriarchal complex -- The "Big Man" syndrome -- Ethnic and religious nepotism -- Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 The "amazing history" of the Trinity -- Mainline Eastern Trinitarian thinkers -- Mainline Western Trinitarian thinkers -- Eclipse and renaissance of Trinitarian theology in the early modern period -- Contemporary African hermeneutics of the Trinity -- Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 The new hermeneutics of the Trinity -- Starting point of the new Trinitarian theology -- Hermeneutics of Trinitarian mutual relations of the Triune God -- Hermeneutics of the unity of the Triune God -- The Trinitarian communion: a moral ideal -- Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 An authentic African tradition of community -- The Lord's supper and the perichoretic life of God -- Dismantling the patriarchal complex -- The true Big Man: newariga diksen -- The gift of ethnic and religious diversity -- Perichoretic theological education -- Summary and conclusion -- Suggestions for further research -- Bibliography -- Index