This is the first full-length study of the doctrine of the Trinity from the standpoint of analytic philosophical theology.

• Introduction


• Part One: Trinitarian Foundations


• 1: Prelude: Where are the Foundations?


• 2: The 'New' Fourth Century


• 3: The Divine Three: What is a 'Person'?


• 4: Gregory of Nyssa and the Divine Persons


• 5: Augustine and the Divine Persons


• 6: The Divine Oneness: What is a 'Nature'?


• 7: Interlude: Simplicity and Identity


• 8: The Pro-Nicenes and the Divine Nature


• 9: The Fathers, the Trinity, and Scripture


• 10: Postlude: Are the Foundations Stable?


• Part Two: Trinitarian Options


• 11: Surveying the Options


• 12: Barth and Rahner: Persons as Modes of Being


• 13: Moltmann and Zizioulas: Perichoresis and Communion


• 14: Leftow: God Living Three Life-Streams


• 15: Van Inwagen: The Trinity and Relative Identity


• 16: B rower and Rea: Sameness in Number Without Identity


• 17: Craig: A Soul with Multiple Sets of Faculties


• 18: Swinburne: Created Divine Persons


• 19: Yandell: The Trinity as a Complex Bearer of Properties


• 20: What Have We Learned?


• Part Three: Trinitarian Construction


• 21: Constructing the Doctrine of the Trinity


• 22: Monotheism and Christology


• 23: Each of the Persons is God


• 24: The Divine Persons are Persons


• 25: The Communion of the Persons


• 26: The Relations of Origin


• 27: The One Divine Nature


• 28: Constitution and the Trinity


• 29: The Grammar of the Trinity


• 30: The Metaphysics of the Trinity

William Hasker (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh), is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, where he taught from 1966 until 2000. His main interests in philosophy are philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Metaphysics (1983), God, Time, and Knowledge (1989), The Emergent Self (1999), Providence, Evil, and the Openness of God (2004), and The Triumph of God Over Evil (2008), and is co-author or co-editor of several other volumes. He was the editor of Faith and Philosophy from 2000 until 2007.