Trinity

The doctrine of the Trinity developed in response to a range of theological interests—among them the project of reconciling claims about the divinity of Christ with monotheism and massaging Christian doctrine into the ambient (largely Platonic) philosophical framework of the period. More recently the Trinity doctrine has been deployed to promote normative claims concerning human nature, human relationships and social justice. During the past two decades analytic philosophers of religion have increasingly engaged with the doctrine. There are, however, a number of foundational questions that have not been addressed in the philosophical literature. The Trinity: A Philosophical Investigation considers the competing accounts of the Trinity doctrine, whether orthodox or heterodox, and aims to respond to objections and explicate their motivations and entailments.

H. E. Baber is a philosophy professor at the University of San Diego. Her research specialties are metaphysics and philosophical theology and, in addition to her work on the doctrine of the Trinity, she has published papers on the Real Presence doctrine. She has published popular essays in the ‘Belief’ section of The Guardian and her columns appear in the Church Times. As an instructor, her joy is teaching logic to undergraduates. She is a member of St. John’s, Chula Vista, and webmistress for the American Branch of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.