Trinitarian doctrine was built on the Aristotelian concept of independent substance.
Evidence
In his book God as Mystery of the World, Eberhard Jüngel analyses the terminological shift affecting the concept of the subject in modernity. He recalls how the formulation of the trinitarian doctrine relied on the Aristotelian concept of substance, understood as a ‘being independent of all others’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 617
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- The Trinity is the logical self-determination of substance into subject. (similarity 0.79)
- Theologians thought proving the Trinity rationally was impossible (similarity 0.78)