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Divine Fission: A New Way of Moderating Social Trinitarianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

PETER FORREST
PETER FORREST
Affiliation:
Discipline of Philosophy, School of Social Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
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Abstract

This paper is a contribution to the programme of moderating Social Trinitarianism to achieve a fairly orthodox result. I follow Swinburne in relying heavily on divine thisnessless and in the important speculation that the Trinity arose from a primordial ‘unitarian’ God. In this paper I explain why I disagree with Swinburnes's account of how the Trinity came into being and I propose an alternative in which the primordial God fissions into three divine persons for the sake of a loving community.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 281 - 297
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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