DANCERS, RUGBY PLAYERS, AND TRINITARIAN PERSONS

In my discussion of Brian Leftow's doctrine of the Trinity, 1 I raised two main objections. First, I argued that the view as he presents it has the heretical consequence that each of the three trinitarian Persons is identical with each of the other two. I admitted, however, that this could be remedied without major alterations to his view, and I suggested a way in which this might be done. My second objection was that even if the view is emended so that the Trinitarian Persons are not identical, it leaves us with a "modalist flavor" and falls short of making them distinct persons, 2 as they need to be for us to have a view that is scripturally and theologically satisfying. Brian, not surprisingly, disagrees with both criticisms.