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Divine persons as relational qua-objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2018

ROBERT C. KOONS
ROBERT C. KOONS*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712, USA
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e-mail: koons@austin.utexas.edu
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Abstract

Is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity consistent with a very strong version of the thesis of divine simplicity? Yes, so long as the simple divine nature is a relational nature, a nature that could be characterized in terms of such relations as knowing and loving. This divine nature functions simultaneously as agent, patient, and action: as knower, known and knowledge, and lover, beloved, and love. I will draw on work on qua-objects by Kit Fine and Nicholas Asher and on my own account of relational facts to elucidate this model more fully.

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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Special Issue 3: Metaphysics of the Trinity: New Directions , September 2018 , pp. 337 - 357
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