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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of Kings College London and the

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Today's episode will be an interview with Richard Cross, who is professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Hi Richard.

So we're going to be talking about the Trinity and what various medieval philosophers suggested as ways of understanding the Trinity.

But before we get into that specific issue, I wanted to ask you something more general, which

is about sameness and difference.

And the reason I want to start with that is that the Trinity seems like it's really a problem of sameness and difference.

We want to say that there are three persons in the divine God, and these

three persons are somehow distinct from one another, but they're also somehow the same, or

identical, because the Father and the Son and the Holy but they're also somehow of the same or identical

because the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit

are all one God.

Would you say that's a fair assessment of the problem, first of all?

I would say that's a very fair assessment of the problem and the thought that there might be some notion of sameness that's distinct from the notion of identity is probably a rather odd thought but it's a thought I think which a number of medieval philosophers had, and oddly enough,

they by and large worked it out exactly in the context of thinking of the theological problem itself.

So whereas we might come to that particular

distinction between sameness and identity in a very different way, they came to it

from that

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