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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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| In: |
Religious studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-186 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Trinity
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412515000025 |
