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Love and the Necessity of the Trinity

An analytic-theology argument, adapted from Joshua Sijuwade’s 2021 article in the journal Religions, for why a single divine person who is perfect love would necessarily generate two others. Four parts: the classical "Argument from Love," the philosophical tools needed to ground it in more than intuition, what is empirically revealed about God and love, and how the generation of exactly three persons follows.

  1. 01The Argument from LoveWhy a solitary God could not be perfectly loving
  2. 02Two Kinds of TruthKripke, and how we discover necessities empirically
  3. 03What Is RevealedGod, and love as a duty rather than a feeling
  4. 04Why ThreeSelf-love, perichoretic love, and the limit of the argument