Paradox and Truth: Rethinking Van Til on the Trinity (Biblia.com)

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Reformed theology has seen increasing calls for the Trinity to live at the center of Christian confession, prompting the need for a fuller biblical and practical understanding of the subject. In recent Reformed thought, Cornelius Van Til and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. have proposed important Trinitarian theologies. Ralph Smith assesses these views and, filling out a Van Tilian perspective with...

say that the distinctions of the attributes are merely nominal. Nor is it to say that the distinctions of the persons are merely nominal. We need both the absolute cotermineity of each attribute and each person with the whole being of God, and the genuine significance of the distinctions of the attributes and the persons.2 Note that Van Til speaks of the simplicity of God, the doctrine of God’s attributes being similar to the distinction of the persons, and that he specifically asserts the view that

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