Antiunitarian Arguments from Divine Perfection

Journal of Analytic Theology 9:262-290 (2021)
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Some have argued that unipersonal concepts of God collapse into incoherence, so that such a being is no more possible than a square circle, or at least that such theologies are, as non-trinitarian, significantly less probable than some trinitarian theologies. I discuss the general strategy and examine recent arguments by William Lane Craig, C. Stephen Layman, Thomas V. Morris, and Richard Swinburne based on divine love, flourishing, and glory. I show why none of these arguments is compelling, as each has at least one weak premise.

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The Love Argument for the Trinity: A Reformulation.Joshua Sijuwade - 2024 - TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 9 (1):1-35.

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The Christian God.Richard Swinburne - 1994 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Our idea of God: an introduction to philosophical theology.Thomas V. Morris - 1991 - Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press.
Anti social trinitarianism.Brian Leftow - 1999 - In Trinity, The. Oxford University Press. pp. 203-249.
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