{"id":46,"date":"2006-08-26T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/46"},"modified":"2015-01-24T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T14:28:33","slug":"linkage-kenny-pearce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-kenny-pearce\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Pearce on the Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34655\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/if-you-can-read-this.jpg\" alt=\"if you can read this\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/if-you-can-read-this.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/if-you-can-read-this-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/if-you-can-read-this-90x62.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Here are <a title=\"Kenny Pearce's discussion\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.kennypearce.net\/archives\/theology\/church_dogmatics\/three_persons_one_substance_pa.html\">some interesting thoughts<\/a> on trinitarian doctrine by young philosopher <a title=\"Kenny's home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennypearce.net\/\">Kenny Pearce<\/a>. I like the way Kenny resists simply settling for mysteries; he has a good sense of how empty that stance is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have to disagree with his claim that persons are causally connected series of mental events, for several philosophical reasons. The main one is this: as stated, it implies something contradictory and false, namely that two later persons can each be numerically identical to one earlier person.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to add more, but I&#8217;m cramming to get ready for the start of the school year here. I wonder, though &#8211; how does he think it can be &#8220;proven from Scripture&#8221; that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;person&#8217; and &#8216;substance&#8217; carry no external meaning into the [Nicene] formula and are merely plugged in as a matter of convenience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some interesting thoughts on trinitarian doctrine by young philosopher Kenny Pearce. I like the way Kenny resists simply settling for mysteries; he has a good sense of how empty that stance is. I&#8217;d have to disagree with his claim that persons are causally connected series of mental events, for several philosophical reasons. The&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-kenny-pearce\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenny Pearce on the Trinity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34655,"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":[8,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linkage","category-philosophy","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34656,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/34656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}