TY - BOOK AU - Hasker, William AU - Hasker,William TI - Metaphysics and the Tri-Personal God SN - 9780199681518 U1 - D10 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Trinitarian Foundations Prelude: where are the foundations?.........7 The new fourth century....11 The divine Three:What is a Person?..........19 Gregory of Nyssa and the divine persons...................40 The divine Oneness: What is a Nature?..............50 Interlude: Simplicity and identity....55 The pro-nicenes and the divine nature.........62 The fathers, The trinity, and Scripture....68 Postlude: Are the foundations stable?.............75 2. Trinitarian options Surveying the options .81 Barth and rahner: Persons as modes of being .........85 Moltmann and zizioulas: Perichoresis and communion.....97 Leftow: God Living three life Streams.....109 Van Inwagen: The trinity and relative identity...............119 Brower and rea: Sameness in Number without identity.129 Craig: A soul with multiple sets of Faculties..........139 Swinburne: Created divine persons...........147 Yandell: The Trinity as a Complex bearer of Properties .......155 what have we learned?........162 3. Trinitarian construction Constructing the doctrine of the trinity....167 Montheism and christology.....177 Each of the Persons is god........185 The trinitarian persons are persons.......193 The communion of the Persons..........203 Processions on God .....214 The one divine nature.........226 Constitution and the trinity......238 The grammar of the Trinity ......246 The metaphisics of the Trinity .............259 ER -