In a previous thread I critiqued the thin Trinitarianism that is common in modern Evangelical theology as inadequate for passing on the Nicene tradition in our day. In this thread I will describe a thick Trinitarianism.
P1: The 3 persons are co-equal in glory & majesty & are to be worshipped as one simple God. Any account of the doc. of the Trinity that violates divine simplicity is inadequate & in danger of denying monotheism.
P2: The only difference we can identify between the persons is the relations of origin (paternity, filiation, spiration). Any specification of differences bet the persons beyond this is a violation of the Divine mystery.
P3: The immanent or eternal Trinity is to be distinguished conceptually from the economic T & the processions within the immanent T must be distinguished from the missions of the persons in the economy. The latter are fittingly related to the former.
P4: The 3 persons have one unified will by which they operate inseparably by one divine power in all that they do. Each person is God, so the actions of each person are the actions of the one God & never exclude the other persons.
P5: Whenever Scrip. speaks of X as having a beginning or as subordinate to the F, it is referring to the human nature of the incarnate Word in hist & whenever Scrip speaks of X as eternal or equal to the F, it is speaking of the divine nature of the eternal Word to the F.