Philosophical and theological essays on the Trinity
By: edited by Thomas McCall and Michael C. Rea
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780199216215
Other titles: Philosophical & theological essays on the Trinity
Description: How can we coherently believe that there is only one God if we also believe that there are three divine Persons? This volume presents a selection of the most important recent philosophical work on this topic accompanied by new essays from differing theological and philosophical perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Social Trinitarianism and its discontents. The Trinity / Richard Swinburne; title: Has a Trinitarian God deceived us? / William Hasker; title: Anti social Trinitarianism / Brian Leftow; title: Toward a tenable social Trinitarianism / William Lane Craig; title: Trinity monotheism / Daniel Howard-Snyder; title: Another glance at Trinity monotheism / William Lane Craig; title: Fully social Trinitarianism / Carl Mosser; title: How many times does three go into one? / Keith Yandell; title: Pt. II. Latin Trinitarianism. A Latin Trinity / Brian Leftow; title: Latin Trinitarianism : some conceptual and historical considerations / Richard Cross; title: Pt. III. Relative Trinitarianism : prospects and problems. And yet they are not three gods but one God / Peter van Inwagen; title: Relative identity and the doctrine of the Trinity / Michael C. Rea; title: Material constitution and the Trinity / Jeffrey E. Brower and Michael C. Rea; title: Does the problem of material constitution illuminate the doctrine of the Trinity / William Lane Craig; title: Defending the consistency of the doctrine of the Trinity / Christopher Hughes; title: Brower and Rea's constitution account of the Trinity / Alexander R. Pruss; title: Pt. IV. The threeness/oneness problem in contemporary theology. The Trinity in theology and philosophy : why Jerusalem should work with Athens / Alan G. Padgett; title: Theologians, philosophers, and the doctrine of Trinity / Thomas McCall.