Abstract

I summarize and criticize Edward Wierenga’s "Trinity and Polytheism". The account suffers from both methodological and substantial problems. It shares the former with much recent work--unprincipled choice of orthodox constraints, theoretical defeatism, lack of positive aims, infidelity to its chosen historical source, and being constrained by a nonauthoritative creed. Substantial problems include poor fit with the Bible, a crucial ambiguity concerning God, and a problematic distinction between ’divinity’ and ’godhood’. I argue that the account doesn’t deliver a believable Trinitarian doctrine