the standard Western option) in all its glory. Augustine is pretty clearly its first significant proponent. In him and in his successors one finds classically paradoxical statements of trinitarian doctrine.”13 What Plantinga wants to know is exactly where this doctrine came from. He suggests that it is a composite doctrine put together from two disparate sources. Augustine’s first source is the Bible, especially the Gospel of John. Here Augustine finds and faithfully reproduces a doctrine of God