  On the surface, the argument from sovereignty appears to preclude the “Platonic Trinity.” For, on Cudworth’s view, the wills of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are necessarily concurrent. For example, “The Father wills that s” entails “The Son wills that s,” and vice versa. Because the creative volition of any member of the Trinity entails that the other two will the same thing, if any one of them wills the existence of a contingent being, then they all will it. So if their concurrent willings are a causally sufficient condition of the existence of contingent beings, then the Father’s (or the Son’s or the Holy Spirit’s) willing the existence of contingent beings is itself a causally sufficient condition of the existence of contingent beings (since it entails the concurrent willing). And, of course, the creative volition of any member of the Trinity is also a necessary causal condition of the existence of contingent beings. It would seem, then, that there are three creative volitions, each of which is a causally sufficient and causally necessary condition of the existence of contingent beings. There are thus three sovereign creative wills, and this appears to contradict the monotheistic claim that sovereignty is necessarily unique.