Abstract
At least since the time of Plato, the notion of God has troubled ethics with the possibility that value might be contingent upon a divine will, and so subject to arbitrary change and unknowable by reason. This essay looks at how thinkers ranging from Aquinas to Spinoza to Kierkegaard have wrestled with this problem before turning to a reflection on how the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, interpreted according to George Lindbeck’s three “grammatical rules” of trinitarian doctrine, can shape Christian practical reasoning. The doctrine of the Trinity helps to ensure that Christian ethics remains distinctively Christian without losing its nature as practical reasoning.
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