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Sabellianism reconsidered

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Sabellianism, the doctrine that the Persons of the Trinity are roles that a single divine being plays either simultaneously or successively, is commonly thought to entail that the Father is the Son. I argue that there is at least one version of Sabellianism that does not have this result and meets the requirements for a minimally decent doctrine of the Trinity insofar as it affirms that each Person of the Trinity is God and that the Trinity of Persons is God while maintaining monotheism without undermining the distinctness of Persons.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, USA

    H. E. Baber

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I am grateful for comments by participants at the Society of Christian Philosophers 2000 meeting and University of San Diego Philosophy colloquium at which earlier versions of this paper were read, and by anonymous referees for this journal.

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Baber, H.E. Sabellianism reconsidered. SOPHIA 41, 1–18 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912232

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