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Book SynopsisBuilding on his paradigm-shifting work on the incarnation in The Contradictory Christ (OUP, 2021), Jc Beall extends a robust contradictory theology with an account of the trinity. Throughout the history of the Christian church, heretics, apophatics, mystics, atheists, and many others have long proclaimed that the doctrine of the trinity - one of the central doctrines of the Christian faith - is contradictory. In this work, Beall agrees; however, as Beall convincingly argues, one needn''t abandon orthodoxy, play language games, inflate one''s metaphysics, nor abandon the standard faith in the face of such divine contradiction. Instead, one can accept central axioms of the trinity at face value and, with a suitable account of logical entailment, accept the ''contradictory truths'' thereby entailed. With the clarity and precision that only a logician could provide, Beall provided theology and the Christian church in general with a very simple and viable (and arguably correct) model of div
Table of Contents1: Aim, scope, limits, and main thesis 2: Logical and extra-logical entailment 3: Trinitarian identity 4: Seven virtues 5: Seven objections 6: Measuring some non-contradictory accounts 7: Towards future contradictory theology Appendix A Athanasian Creed (tr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.) Appendix B §2 Appendix: formal sketch of FDE
