Divine contradiction / JC Beall.
Christian theology is monotheistic, but the idea of the trinity problematises this: how can there be one god, but also Father, Son, and Spirit? Jc Beall provides a simple but logically rigorous solution, arguing that the apparent contradictions of the trinity cannot be rejected without thereby rejec...
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| 520 | |a Christian theology is monotheistic, but the idea of the trinity problematises this: how can there be one god, but also Father, Son, and Spirit? Jc Beall provides a simple but logically rigorous solution, arguing that the apparent contradictions of the trinity cannot be rejected without thereby rejecting fundamental truths of divine reality. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Series page -- Series page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Preface -- Aim -- Previous work -- Hope -- Target audience -- Conventions governing style -- An unsolicited note on reading the book -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Dedication page -- 1. Aim, Scope, Limits, and Main Thesis -- 1.1 Guiding constraints -- 1.2 Contradictions true of Christ -- 1.3 Theology as logic-bound -- 1.4 The Athanasian Creed -- 1.5 Robust monotheism -- 1.6 The target 'logical' problem -- 1.7 The target thesis -- 2. Logical and Extra-Logical Entailment -- 2.1 True, false, and beyond -- 2.2 Atomic attributions -- 2.3 Logical compounds: sentential and quantification -- 2.4 Entailment in general: consequence relations -- 2.5 Logical entailment: universal -- 2.6 Extra-logical entailment: theory-specific -- 2.7 Big picture: logic and true theories -- 3. Trinitarian Identity -- 3.1 Big picture: God, trinitarian identity, and contradiction -- 3.2 Identity and true theories -- 3.3 The leibnizian recipe -- 3.4 The ingredients -- 3.5 Trinitarian identity -- 3.6 3-1-ness entailments and trinitarian identity -- 3.7 On the 3-1-ness problem_ counting conventions -- 4. Seven Virtues -- 4.1 Unified solution: christological and trinitarian contradiction -- 4.2 Simplicity -- 4.3 No need for analogical or metaphorical gesturing -- 4.4 No new-fangled approach to identity relations -- 4.5 No unmarked equivocation -- 4.6 Metaphysical and epistemological neutrality -- 4.7 The mystery of trinitarian reality -- 5. Seven Objections -- 5.1 Contradiction is not a perfection! -- 5.2 Divine simplicity! -- 5.3 Counting divine reality! -- 5.4 Trinitarian entailments should be unrestricted! -- 5.5 Clashing christology and trinitarian theory! -- 5.6 Heresy! -- 5.7 Theology is at most analogical or mere model building! -- 6. Measuring Some Non-Contradictory Accounts. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6.1 Social-trinitarian accounts -- 6.2 Pure relative-identity accounts -- 6.3 Impure relative-identity accounts: constitution -- 6.4 Epistemic-mystery accounts -- 6.5 Gap-theoretic accounts -- 6.6 Piecemeal theology: losing logic -- one more time -- 6.7 On the consistency-questing field -- 7. Towards Future Contradictory Theology -- 7.1 On omni-property problems -- 7.2 Free will and determinism -- 7.3 God's transcendence -- 7.4 God's love -- 7.5 God's creation -- 7.6 Denominationally distinct doctrines -- 7.7 ... apart from divine-incarnate and trinitarian reality? -- Appendix A Athanasian Creed (tr. Philip Neri Reese, O.P.) -- Appendix B 2 Appendix: Formal Sketch of FDE -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
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