The doctrine of the Trinity is a signpost that points to God's mystery as a life-giving triune presence in history. God's life has been shared in history for the sake of human salvation. Thus wherever the question of creaturely life arises, the reality of God emerges as its answer. As the Latin American theologian Ignacio Ellacuría underscores, it is not so much that “God is in all things” but that “all things, each in its own way, have been grafted with the triune life and refer essentially to that life.” In this sense, trinitarian theology probes within manifold creaturely experiences “the triune life itself, however mediated, incarnated, and historicized.”

This chapter probes the triune life of God from black, Latin American, and US Hispanic perspectives. The first part of the chapter explores the fundamental relationship between God and salvation history. It underscores how black, Latin American, and US Hispanic theologies understand racial, socio-economic, and cultural marginalization as loci for understanding the life-giving manifestation of God's reality. I draw primarily from the writings of James Cone, Gustavo Gutíerrez, and Virgilio Elizondo. Each of these theologians provides distinct building-blocks in black, Latin American, and US Hispanic trinitarian reflections.