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Richard of St. Victor’s argument from love and contemporary analytic theology of the Trinity

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12/05/2022
Author
Bray, Dennis
Keywords
Richard of St. Victor
Trinity
Social Trinitarianism
Non-social Trinitarianism
BL Religion
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In his De Trinitate (c.1170) Richard of St Victor gives one of the more intriguing examples of trinitarian philosophical theology. Beginning with our common beliefs about and experiences of love, he argues for the existence of three, and only three, divine persons (call this The Argument). My goal in this essay is to explore several points of interaction between The Argument and current discussions in analytic theology of the trinity. In part one I briefly survey Richard’s views on three topics of interest to philosophical trinitarians, namely, the distinction of divine persons, his model of the trinity, and intra-trinitarian love. In part two I look at some work in these areas by analytic thinkers. My intention here is to apply some elements of The Argument and to show how its appeal may go beyond that of social trinitarians. I propose that Richard’s argument cannot receive unqualified adoption by social trinitarians and, alternatively, is more appealing to non-social trinitarians than has thus far been recognized.
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Bray , D 2022 , ' Richard of St. Victor’s argument from love and contemporary analytic theology of the Trinity ' , TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology , vol. 6 , no. 2 . https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v6i2.63913
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TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v6i2.63913
ISSN
2593-0265
Type
Journal article
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Copyright (c) 2022 Dennis Bray. Open Access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25421

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