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HoP 116 - Charles Brittain on Augustine's On the Trinity

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Criteria for a Trinitarian Trinity

He goes through all of these versions of the image of the Trinity that would be found in us. What are the kind of criteria that he's looking for? So what features does this human Trinity need to have that will qualify it as the best possible image of the divine Trinity? He ends up with a list of six or maybe a few more criteria. Focus on the most important. The first thing is that it needs to be a Trinitarian substance. That’s why the mind is a good example, so it has three different aspects. Those are the basic idea to be an image of a god. Then there is more specific criteria that rule out various other possibilities.

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