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Being of one substance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2018

JOHN HEIL
JOHN HEIL*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, CB 1073, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
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e-mail: jh@wustl.edu
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Abstract

An attempt is made to provide a consistent, independently motivated metaphysics of the Trinity by invoking an ontology of substances, attributes, and modes in the spirit of Descartes and Spinoza. The Trinity comprises one substance, triply attributed, where distinctions among attributes are ‘of reasoned reason’ only, but ‘founded’ in the nature of the substance.

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Original Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Special Issue 3: Metaphysics of the Trinity: New Directions , September 2018 , pp. 313 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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