A latin trinity

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Latin models of the Trinity begin from the existence of one God, and try to explain how one God can be three Persons. I offer an account of this based on an analogy with time-travel. A time-traveler returning to the same point in time repeatedly might have three successive events in his/her life occurring at that one location in public time. So too, God's life might be such that three distinct parts of His life are always occurring at once, though without any succession between them, and this might give God the triune structure Christian theology believes He has.

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Leftow, B. (2004). A latin trinity. Faith and Philosophy, 21(3), 304–333. https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil200421328

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