Trinity Monotheism

Philosophia Christi 5 (2):375 - 403 (2003)
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Reprinted in Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity, Oxford, 2009, eds Michael Rea and Thomas McCall. In this essay, I assess a certain version of ’social Trinitarianism’ put forward by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, ’trinity monotheism’. I first show how their response to a familiar anti-Trinitarian argument arguably implies polytheism. I then show how they invoke three tenets central to their trinity monotheism in order to avoid that implication. After displaying these tenets more fully, I argue that Trinitarians would do well to hold Moreland’s and Craig’s trinity monotheism at arms length.

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Daniel Howard-Snyder
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Trinity.Dale Tuggy - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Simplicity or Priority?Gregory Fowler - 2013 - In L. Kvanvig Jonathan (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press. pp. 114-138.
Objections to Social Trinitarianism.William Hasker - 2010 - Religious Studies 46 (4):421 - 439.
The Logical Problem of the Trinity.Beau Branson - 2014 - Dissertation, University of Notre Dame

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