The God of the groups
I argue that Social Trinitarians can and should conceive of God as a group person. They can by drawing on recent theories of group agency realism that show how groups can be not just agents but persons distinct from their members - albeit, I argue, persons of a different kind. They should because th...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2016]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2016, Band: 52, Heft: 2, Seiten: 167-186 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Trinität
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| RelBib Classification: | NBC Gotteslehre |
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| Zusammenfassung: | I argue that Social Trinitarians can and should conceive of God as a group person. They can by drawing on recent theories of group agency realism that show how groups can be not just agents but persons distinct from their members - albeit, I argue, persons of a different kind. They should because the resultant novel view of the Trinity - that God is three intrinsicist' persons in one functional' person - is theologically sound, effectively counters the most trenchant criticisms of Social Trinitarianism, and enjoys independent theological support from the biblical notion of corporate personality'. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412515000025 |
