Which Trinitarian model is coherent, and at what cost?
Which model of Trinitarian coherence survives its strongest objections, and what cost does each model pay?
Last packet 24 August 2026 · 2 research notes
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The strongest case
The recorded case is that some model of the Trinity is coherent at a cost — relative identity, a Latin one-self reading, monarchy, or constitution among the options on file. The Orthodox steelman is Cappadocian monarchy, including Beau Branson’s Orthodox analytic restatement — not Swinburne’s analytic social Trinity.
What it still does not settle
Every model checked pays a documented cost, and no model is published as the winner. Relative identity is conceded as a failed stand-alone solution by a sympathetic critic; the label 'Eastern equals social Trinity' is itself disputed by patristics scholarship.
Thin one-packet contentions — leftover checks and saturation (2026-08-24)
Argument incompleteStrongest case · These six rows were parked after a first extraction, not because they are unimportant. The strongest remaining hope on each is: (005) TAG already names one consequence relation that pluralism cannot split; (007) monarchy plus consubstantiality uniquely solves the one-and-many; (008) one Trinitarian model is cost-free and Eastern; (011) unaided reason reaches Trinity; (014) Agrippa automatically refutes every terminus; (015) grounding warrant access and avowal collapse into one relation that uniq
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