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What do you mean by "Trinity"?

How do you define Trinity?

  • One God in three Persons - all of the persons, infinite, no beginning, eternal ...

    Votes: 17 85.0%
  • One God in threee persons - and not all the same attributes listed in option 1

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • The definition does not include "one God in three persons" - so something else

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Total voters
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The persons of the Trinity are not separated or divided. No orthodox theologian of the early or medieval church claimed that. Distinction is not the same as separation.

The east certainly doesn't think of the Trinity as a monad. I'm less well versed in western Trinitarianism.

I don't know of any non-Sabellian who would refard the Trinity as a monad.
 
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I think we largely agree, though I think mainstream theology, at least in the West, managed to avoid tritheism. At least if you think of things in their terms. I think Augustine's vision of the Trinity manages to have a distinction without tritheism.

Tritheism was a tiny niche on the fringe of the Coptic church. IIrC John Philoponus was of that school.
 
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