Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: I develop a Latin Social model of the Trinity that is an extension of my previous work on indexicals and the Trinity.I focus on the theological desideratum of the necessity of the divine persons' unity of action.After giving my account of this unity, I compare my account with Swinburne's and Hasker's social models and Leftow's non-social model.I argue that their accounts of the divine persons' unity of action are theologically unsatisfactory and that this unsatisfactoriness derives from a modern conception of personhood according to which distinct and incommunicable intellectual acts and volitional acts are necessary conditions for one's being a person.I argue that the Latin Social model is preferable to the modern-personhood models because it is simpler in explanatory economy with regard to securing the necessity of the divine persons' unity of action.
Source: Faith and Philosophy
Authors: Scott M. Williams, The Society of Christian Philosophers
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2744534714