Alexander R Pruss
Personhood is teleologically relational in the sense that a person is the kind of being that necessarily can only be fulfilled in relationships with other persons. Necessarily, any person other than God is a creature. So, if God is a single person, this person necessarily can only be fulfilled in...
Alexander R Pruss
For a while this spring I’ve been thinking about ways of avoiding quaternity views of God. The problem is that, first, Father ≠ Son, Son ≠ Spirit and Father ≠ Spirit and, second, we seem to have to choose between the following two options: A. Father = God, Son = God and Spirit = God, or B....
Alexander R Pruss
Let me re-phrase an argument from an earlier post. Suppose “=” is governed by the classical rules of identity, and G, F, S, and H are names for God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let x ≠ y abbreviate Not(x = y). Let D(x) say that x is divine. There then are three predicates A, B and C...