discussions regarding the divine attributes before mention of the Holy Trinity. Colin Gunton has been especially acute in criticizing Augustine and Aquinas, with their stress on the divine nature, as having lost the personal three in the overwhelming one—or so philosophizing about the one God as to have lost true trinitarian faith and, consequently, setting the stage for European deism and atheism.12 However perceived, the traditional Western view has been that the divine nature is not merely a unifying