The social theory of the Trinity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20313386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Swinburne (0000-0001-9898-6135, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-437 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034412518000203 |
| OpenAlex | W2799667600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 8 |
Subsequent to the fifth century until modern times all theologians agreed that God the Trinity is constituted by three persons (in Boethius's sense of ‘an individual substance of a rational nature’) who have a common divine essence, and are individuated only by their relations to each other. Having that essence entailed each being omnipotent and so perfectly good. In virtue of his perfect goodness the Father necessarily produces the Son (in order to have one equal whom to love and be loved by) and the Spirit (in order that the Son have one equal other than the Father to love and be loved by). There cannot be more than three divine persons because three persons are sufficient for the existence of unselfish love, and so any fourth divine person would be produced by an act which none of the three needed to produce, and so would not exist necessarily and so could not be divine. Necessarily if there is one divine person, there are three and only three divine persons
Divine grace · Divine Providence · Epistemology · Order (exchange) · Theology · Virtue · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
Unity among Division
Parting the Waters? Dissociative Identity Disorder and Baptism
Being Exalted
Building the monarchy of the Father
Divine subjectivity and intersubjectivity
The functional mind and the trinitarian God
African relational ontology, personhood and immutability
Love and the Necessity of the Trinity
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |