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A new logical problem for the doctrine of the Trinity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2016

JUSTIN MOONEY
JUSTIN MOONEY*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
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e-mail: mooneyj@uwm.edu
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Abstract

In this article I develop a new problem for the doctrine of the Trinity that I call the Problem of Triunity. Rather than proceeding from the fact that God is one and the persons are many, as the traditional problem of the Trinity does, the problem of triunity proceeds from the fact that, in one sense or another, God is many, and yet each divine person on his own is just one.

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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 1 - 13
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