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- Title
Simply Given: Self‐Gift and Consubstantiality in Aquinas and Social Trinitarianism.
- Authors
Higgins, Michael Joseph
- Abstract
Social Trinitarians have long argued that a strong reading of consubstantiality rules out the possibility of anything interpersonal – including interpersonal self‐giving – in God. I argue that, for Aquinas, the claim that all three persons are identical to the same nature is no threat to interpersonal self‐giving. Nor is it merely compatible with interpersonal self‐giving. Instead, it is necessary for the fullest possible self‐giving: if the Father and the Son did not share a single nature, then the Father could not give everything he has to the Son.
- Subjects
TRINITARIANS (Organization); GOD; CHRISTIANITY; THEOLOGY; GIFTS
- Publication
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2024, Vol 26, Issue 3, p274
- ISSN
1463-1652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijst.12685