Building on his paradigm-shifting work on the incarnation in The
Contradictory Christ (OUP, 2021), Jc Beall extends a robust
contradictory theology with an account of the trinity. Throughout the
history of the Christian church, heretics, apophatics, mystics,
atheists, and many others have long proclaimed that the doctrine of
the trinity - one of the central doctrines of the Christian faith - is
contradictory. In this work, Beall agrees; however, as Beall
convincingly argues, one needn't abandon orthodoxy, play language
games, inflate one's metaphysics, nor abandon the standard faith in
the face of such divine contradiction. Instead, one can accept central
axioms of the trinity at face value and, with a suitable account of
logical entailment, accept the 'contradictory truths' thereby
entailed. With the clarity and precision that only a logician could
provide, Beall provided theology and the Christian church in general
with a very simple and viable (and arguably correct) model of divine
reality. Unlike the vast number of theologians and philosophers before
him, Beall rejects the quest for a logically consistent account of
divine reality. The triune god (viz., God) is truly and fully
described only via contradiction. As such, attempts to remove the
contradiction are attempts to remove truths of God.
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ISBN
9780192660091
Publisert
2023
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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