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    Social trinitarians like Cornelius Plantinga and Richard ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A doctrine of processions must be retained in trinitarian theology.

    Social trinitarians like Cornelius Plantinga and Richard Swinburne ground trinitarian relations in mutual love and will, not ontological derivation.

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    • 1.Mutual love and will better preserve divine freedom than ontological derivation, which implies necessary relations.
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    • 2.Social trinitarianism avoids the explanatory gap between abstract substance metaphysics and biblical portraits of relational persons.
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    • 3.Personal relations grounded in will align trinitarian theology with how humans understand love, making it coherent rather than mystical.
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    • 1.If trinitarian relations depend on divine will, God could have chosen not to be trinitarian, making the Trinity contingent, not essential.
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    • 2.Three separate centers of will risk tritheism by treating persons as genuinely distinct agents rather than one substance with three modes.
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    • 3.Social trinitarianism struggles to explain divine simplicity and unity in a way that ontological frameworks naturally accommodate.
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