CHAPTER III 



THE TRIUNITY OF PERSONALITY 



WHEN the human mind is analysed into its constituents 

 for the purposes of the psychologist, or the human per- 

 sonality for the purposes of the philosopher, the number 

 of those constituents is found to be three. Even by 

 itself, this fact is interesting when we remember that, 

 in the religion which takes fullest account of the per- 

 sonal nature of God, the Trinity of the Godhead is the 

 fundamental doctrine. However, by itself the coinci- 

 dence may be of no evidential value ; it may be merely 

 curious. If on close examination it should turn out that 

 psychologist, philosopher, and Christian dogmatist mean 

 the same, or nearly the same, thing, mutatis mutandis, 

 when they speak of the threefold aspect of manhood and 

 of Godhead if each is expressing in his own way his 

 partial vision of one underlying truth the fact becomes 

 more than interesting. It becomes peculiarly suggestive. 

 If, finally, it can be shown, that the idea of Godhead 

 which the Christian theologian formalises in what he 

 calls the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not merely an 

 unjustified and anthropomorphic projection of what he 

 knows of limited personality into his representation of 

 God, the facts become more than suggestive; they point 

 to the nature of ultimate truth. The Trinity in Unity of 

 the Personal God is then an essential part, at least, of 

 Reality. 



Clearly we must examine very carefully these con- 

 ceptions of the nature of personality, alike from the 

 point of the psychologist, philosopher, and theologian. 



As we saw at the end of the last chapter, the psycho- 

 logist divides the activities of personal existence into 



