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Metaphysics and explanatory models

Simplicity, eternal generation and the strengths and limits of individual models.

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J01 · Objection and responseHow do divine simplicity and real relationships fit together?What Thomas means to explain by “subsisting relations” — and why an equals sign does not settle the question.Read more ↗J02 · Objection and responseDoes eternal generation contradict the Son's self-existence?Why eternal sonship must mean neither a beginning nor a manufactured deity.Read more ↗J03 · Objection and responseDoes the “monarchy of the Father” make the Son a lesser God?How personal order is distinguished from a hierarchy of divine essence.Read more ↗J04 · Objection and responseIf God acts undividedly, why does only the Son become human?Shared divine action and personal reference are different statements.Read more ↗J05 · Objection and responseCould the Father also have become human?Why divine power and personal distinctiveness do not answer the same question.Read more ↗J06 · Objection and responseDoes relative identity solve the Trinity problem?What “the same God, different persons” explains — and what it must still justify.Read more ↗J07 · Objection and responseDo social models of the Trinity lead to three gods?Swinburne and Craig advocate different models; both must be measured against God's unity.Read more ↗J08 · Objection and responseCan the model of statue and material explain the Trinity?What constitution models clarify and where their application to God ends.Read more ↗J09 · Objection and responseAre Latin models merely disguised modalism?One divine essence must not become a single person behind three roles.Read more ↗J10 · Objection and responseHas Branson proved that there is no solution?A complete classification of possible answers is not yet a refutation of every answer.Read more ↗J11 · Objection and responseIs mystery merely protection from refutation?Why a presuppositional starting point requires precise argumentation.Read more ↗J12 · Objection and responseMust one allow true contradictions for the Trinity?Why paraconsistent logic and a contradictory God are not the same thing.Read more ↗
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