ABSTRACT
St. Gregory's soteriological doctrine of the Trinity and the Trinitarian cosmology is in its emphasis of the Creator's love of the suffering creatures not far from Martin Luther's theology of the cross. Through the lens of soteriology, the synergy of God and creation appears to be a plastic process in space and time—and space and time are themselves part of the Spirit's versatile synergy, which sets creation free. The moving God draws the world as creation closer to its destination; salvation is imagined as a process of transfiguration, as a liberating movement. While a mammonistic view of life strives for individuals' and corporations' accumulation at any price, the liberating economy of the Creator is characterized by synergy, cooperation, and a life-enhancing justice mirrored in socially and ecologically flourishing communities. The analogy of God's goodness and justice on earth, in spite of its roots in middle Platonist thinking, not developed ontologically but consequently soteriologically.
