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Divine deception, identity, and Social Trinitarianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2004

DALE TUGGY
DALE TUGGY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063
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Abstract

After laying out the claims and motivations of Social Trinitarianism, I develop three new arguments against it. According to the first two, if Social Trinitarianism were true, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit would have engaged in wrongful deception via both Old and New Testament revelation. I briefly consider the strength of the arguments and some possible replies to them, concluding that they constitute good reasons to deny that version of Trinitarian doctrine. According to the final argument, Social Trinitarianism is incompatible with two central claims of the New Testament.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 269 - 287
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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