{"id":191,"date":"2007-10-10T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/191"},"modified":"2015-09-07T20:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T00:27:02","slug":"the-latin-trinity-chart-1-8-things-1-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-latin-trinity-chart-1-8-things-1-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latin Trinity Chart 1 – 8 things, 1 trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings, campers. We’ll return to Swinburne<\/a> in a bit… I’ve been drawing again:<\/p>\n

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Now it’s all clear, right? RIGHT?!<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

key:
\nD = the divine essence
\nP = paternity
\nFi = filiation
\nSp = spiration
\nF = the Father
\nS = the Son
\nH = the Holy Spirit
\nT = the Trinity<\/p>\n

In this chart are eight “things”<\/strong> – in the widest sense of “thing”, i.e. something that may be referred to. None is identical<\/a> to any other. I’ve given each one a unique one or two letter name. But there are only three divine persons (or “persons”) and exactly one god, the<\/em> God.<\/p>\n

Here’s one application for this chart. <\/strong>(This ties into some things that Josh Blander (PhD student of the excellent Calvin Normore<\/a> at UCLA) and I have privately emailed about, as well as some things discussed by JT, Joseph, and Scott here<\/a>. Take all of the above to be individual things, and just say that they are proper parts of the Trinity<\/strong>. So each Person is a complex thing, with D and a relational property as parts, and the Trinity is the mereological sum of those, i.e. a complex thing with the other seven things as parts. The persons are each individuated by a certain unique relational property, the subject of which, in every case, is D. I was too lazy to add the arrows, but the thing F would generate S, and F & S would spirate H – so it is F, S, and H which stand in those (causal?) relations, not P, Fi, and Sp.
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\nWhat, if anything, is wrong with this, as an orthodox way to understand the Trinity?<\/strong> And: is it the correct way? Josh? Scott? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings, campers. We’ll return to Swinburne in a bit… I’ve been drawing again: Now it’s all clear, right? RIGHT?! key: D = the divine essence P = paternity Fi = filiation Sp = spiration F = the Father S = the Son H = the Holy Spirit T = the Trinity In this chart are… Read More »The Latin Trinity Chart 1 – 8 things, 1 trinity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-modalism","category-philosophy","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36235,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/36235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}