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1 Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Holman Christian Standard Bible.
2 R. Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006), 54.
3 R. Nicole, “The Meaning of the Trinity,” in P. Toon and J. D. Spiceland, eds., One God in Trinity (Westchester, IL: Cornerstone, 1980), 1–4.
4 D. B. Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), 174.
5 P. Boyer, The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 6; cf. P. Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 300.
6 On the Trinity's biblical foundations, see P. Copan, That's Just Your Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001).
7 C. Plantinga, “The Threeness/Oneness Problem of the Trinity,” Calvin Theological Journal 23 (1988): 51; Cornelius Plantinga, “The Perfect Family,” Christianity Today 28 (March 4, 1988), 27.
8 C. Plantinga, “The Perfect Family,” 27.
9 Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite, 182.
10 Some comments here are taken from L. Newbigin, “Trinity as Public Truth,” in The Trinity in a Pluralistic Age: Theological Essays on Culture and Religion, ed. K. J. Vanhoozer (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), chap. 1.
11 F. G. Kirkpatrick, A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003), 56.
12 C. Gunton, The One, the Three, and the Many (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).