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Two Trinities: reply to Hasker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2010

BRIAN LEFTOW
BRIAN LEFTOW*
Affiliation:
Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW
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e-mail: Brian.leftow@oriel.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

William Hasker replies to my arguments against Social Trinitarianism, offers some criticism of my own view, and begins a sketch of another account of the Trinity. I reply with some defence of my own theory and some questions about his.

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Religious Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 441 - 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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Notes

1. Hasker, William‘Objections to Social Trinitarianism’, Religious Studies, 46 (2010), 421–439CrossRefGoogle Scholar. All in-text page references are to this paper.

2. Leftow, Brian‘A Latin Trinity’, Faith and Philosophy, 21 (2004), 304–333CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 314.

3. My thanks here to Joseph Jedwab.

4. Wes Morriston, So‘Omnipotence and necessary moral perfection: are they compatible?’, Religious Studies, 37 (2001), 143–160Google Scholar.

5. William Hasker, personal communication.

6. William Hasker, personal communication.

7. Moreland and Craig call the subjects parts of God; William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (Downers Grove IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003), 591. It's not clear whether they would infer from this that they are parts of the divine soul.

8. Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.‘Social Trinity and Tritheism’, in Ronald J. Feenstra and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.(eds) Trinity, Incarnation, and Atonement: Philosophical and Theological Essays (Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), 34. Plantinga adds that in classical Arianism these natures were graded, i.e. having one was better than having another.

9. Or ‘are divine,’ if ‘Trinity’ is just a collective term for a plurality.

10. C. J. F. Williams ‘Not by confounding the persons nor dividing the substance’, in Alan F. Padgett (ed.) Reason and the Christian Religion: Essays in Honour of Richard Swinburne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 242.

11. My thanks to Joseph Jedwab for helpful comments.