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The Trinity is unconstitutional

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2018

BRIAN LEFTOW
BRIAN LEFTOW*
Affiliation:
Oriel College Oxford, Oxford OX1 4EW, UK Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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e-mail: brian.leftow@oriel.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

Some marble, appropriately worked, comes to constitute a statue: constitution is the relation between the resulting statue and the marble it is made of. Some recent authors use the concept of constitution to explicate or at least provide an analogy for the doctrine of the Trinity. I argue that this won't do, because there is no viable candidate for the role the marble plays in the statue's case.

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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Special Issue 3: Metaphysics of the Trinity: New Directions , September 2018 , pp. 359 - 376
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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