Philosophical puzzles about the Christian doctrine of the Trinity
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The Trinity must be a person.
'Every divine person is a god' is not true by definition.
A divine person is essentially eternally omnipotent and exists necessarily.
A doctrine of processions must be retained in trinitarian theology.
A solitary divine Person could not flourish.
A solitary divine Person would lack glory.
A three-self theory of the Trinity like Swinburne's is false.
A truly solitary divine Person would not be divine.
Abner's argument for the Trinity is supported from a philosophical point of view.
Ancient Israelites recognized many groups, including their own nation, as literal (group, functional) persons.
Any account of the Trinity that treats the Persons as numerically identical faces a serious problem.
Aseity is not essential to divinity (i.e., not essential for being worthy of worship).
Before creation, the Logos existed as logos endiathetos (word within) rather than logos prophorikos (verbal utterance)
Belief in the Christian Incarnation cannot be achieved by virtue of reason
Christ manifests and solves the contradiction between the individual and the collectivity.
Christ should be said to have one complex or combined nature (mía phúsis súnthetos), not two discernible natures.
Christological predications can be indexed to Christ's respective natures using grammatical modifiers to solve the problem of incompatible properties.
Contemplation within the Godhead is mutual between Father and Son
Divine love does not imply further Persons beyond those already implied by divine self-knowing.
Each Person of the Trinity is divine.
Faith in the Incarnation must be held by virtue of the absurd
Faith in the Incarnation requires suspension of reason
God can be considered 'personal' even if God is not identical to any personal being
God the Trinity can be understood as a fourth divine self that is a functional person, distinct from the three intrinsicist Persons of the Trinity.
God-as-knower is not numerically the same as God-as-known.
Hasker's theory is problematic because the divine nature/soul, which is not God, would be the ultimate reality rather than God.
It is false that there are three distinct creative wills each of which is a necessary and sufficient causal condition of the existence of contingent beings.
It is impossible for God to be a single Person; the concept of a unipersonal God is incoherent.
It is possible for one trope of divinity to support simultaneously three distinct lives.
It is problematic to claim that one and the same thing is both divine and human
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Trinity
# Trinity The Trinity is the Christian belief that God exists as three distinct persons—the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit—while remaining one God. These three are understood as co-equal and eternal, working together as a unified divine being. This concept is central to most Christian denominations, though different traditions interpret and explain it in various ways.
contingent beings
Beings whose existence is not necessary — they exist but could have failed to exist
Ontology
The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
The Father
In Christian theology, God the creator, understood as the first person of the Trinity.
The Spirit
In Christian theology, the Holy Spirit, understood as the third person of the Trinity—often described as God's active presence or power in the world.
causally sufficient condition
'A' is a causally sufficient condition for 'B' when 'A' specifies the occurrence of an event that would cause another event 'B', by stating a condition the truth of which is sufficient for inferring the truth of 'B'.
soul
A principle introduced to explain animal life beyond what organs alone can account for, but insufficient on its own to explain the full range of human activity
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