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    It is not the case that Swinburne's theory of the Trinity should be rejected or is seriously problematic.

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    • 1.Swinburne's theory entails serious inequalities of power among the Three.
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    • 2.Swinburne's theory jeopardizes the personhood of each member of the Trinity.
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    • 3.Swinburne's theory carries the serious price of allowing that a divine being may be created, contrary to what most theists hold.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Swinburne's Trinity requires three distinct centers of consciousness with separable wills, which satisfies the criteria for three Gods per Aquinas's formal definition of divine individuation.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Leftow's 'Latin Trinity' standard demonstrates that numerical identity, not mere cooperation, is necessary for orthodox Trinitarian doctrine, and Swinburne's model explicitly abandons numerical identity.
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    • 1.Swinburne's model requires the Father to exist logically prior to the Son and Spirit, reintroducing the Arian subordinationist hierarchy condemned at Nicaea 325 CE.
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    • 2.The Cappadocian Fathers established that any asymmetric causal dependence among the Three entails an inequality of essence, not merely relation, which is incompatible with homoousios.
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