mysterianism

“Latin trinitarianism” is just what would have been thought of as the creedal teaching about the Three for most of Christian history, or at least a prominent strand of it, another being mysterianism, which is often thought compatible with it.

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Thus, mysterianism is commonly held as a supplement to one of the theories of sections

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Some recent studies have emphasized the centrality of negative mysterianism to the pro-Nicene tradition of trinitarian thought, chastising recent theorists who seem to feel unconstrained by it (Ayres 2004; Coakley 1999; Dixon 2003).

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More common is a moderate form, where mysterianism supplements a Trinity theory which has some understandable content, but which is vague or otherwise problematic.

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Davis's theory may be best understood not as a blend of social and Latin trinitarianism, but rather as a blend of social trinitarianism and mysterianism.

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Negative mysterianism goes hand in hand with the doctrines of divine incomprehensibility (that God or God's essence can't be understood completely, at all, or adequately) and divine ineffability

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Unitarian views on the Trinity are often partially motivated by hostility to mysterianism.

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In this extreme form, mysterianism may be a sort of sophisticated position by itself ” to the effect that one repeats the creedal formulas and refuses on principle to explain how, if at all, one interprets them.

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