Even a cursory reading of Edwards’ writings on the Trinity highlights the fact that there is something radically original about his language. Among his paragraphs we find surprising, fascinating statements: “It is [God’s] essence to incline to communicate himself”; God’s being is “a disposition to communicate”; the Father’s being is communicated to, and “repeated” in, the Son and the Holy Spirit as the result of the Father’s exercise of his dispositional essence.8 Edwards does occasionally use the