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Divine Contradiction, PDF eBook

Divine Contradiction PDF

Part of the Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology series

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Building 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 Beallconvincingly 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 divine reality.

Unlike the vast number of theologians and philosophers before him, Beall rejects the quest for a logically consistent account of divine reality.

The triune god (viz., God) is truly and fully described only via contradiction.

As such, attempts to remove the contradiction are attempts to removetruths of God.

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