Social trinitarianism of Swinburne's type collapses into tritheism unless underwritten by a fourth unifying principle, but positing such a principle contradicts monotheism's foundational commitment to a single ultimate reality.

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Richard Swinburne(as a philosopher cited on divine intervention): A contemporary British philosopher of religion who uses logical arguments to defend belief in God and explores questions about miracles and divine action.
Social trinitarianism(as used in theology and philosophy of religion): A theological view that understands the Christian Trinity (God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) as three distinct persons or beings who are unified through their relationships with each other, rather than being literally one substance.
monotheism(The conclusion being argued toward from the impossibility of multiple omnipotent beings.): The position that exactly one god exists.
tritheism(Eastern Christian theological controversy; distinguished from the self-understanding of thinkers like Philoponus who denied abandoning monotheism): A hostile label applied to theologians who, in attempting to make the mystery of the Trinity philosophically intelligible, concluded that the three Persons of the Trinity are three distinct divine substances — not a self-description adopted by those so labeled

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