Divine contradiction / JC Beall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beall, J. C., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in analytic theology.

Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Trinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Beall, Jc Divine Contradiction

ISBN:

0-19-266008-X

0-19-266009-8

9780191937637

OCLC:

1376931838