Kay

It is not just that as it happens some theories of the Trinity often project our “ideals” onto God, but rather it is built into that kind of project that many theorists are involved in that they have to be projectionist. Because for the theorists, God is more appropriately modeled on three human beings than on One. But they do not want to be tritheists, so then they must say that although three human persons make three human beings, three divine persons, even if they are separate centers of a will and self-consciousness and so on, make only one God. For me, this just seems circular. I’m not saying that these believers all have bad motives. But why can’t we just let God be God?
If we follow Augustine and begin from God’s oneness, then the problem of the Trinity is to find a way of accommodating God’s threeness. On the other hand, if we begin with the social theorists from the three persons then the problem is to find a way of making sense of God is One. But again, at some point a finite mind may need to admit that it is just that – finite?