The Trinity and Extended Simples

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Abstract

In this paper, I will offer an analogy between the Trinity and extended simples that supports a Latin approach to the Trinity. The theoretical tools developed to discuss and debate extended simples in the literature of contemporary analytic metaphysics, I argue, can help us make useful conceptual distinctions in attempts to understand what it could be for God to be Triune. Furthermore, the analogy between extended simples and the Trinity might surprise some who find one of these at least plausibly possible and the other incoherent.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)414-440
Number of pages26
JournalFaith and Philosophy
Volume33
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • the Trinity
  • extended simples
  • Latin Trinitarianism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Philosophy
  • Religious studies

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