 Most statements of faith by trinitarian Christian groups seem to assume or imply that the Trinity just is God (and vice-versa); the only god is the tripersonal God, the Trinity, and “Trinity” is a singular referring term denoting that reality. This God, it is assumed, does not merely happen to be tripersonal, but must be so; on such a view, it looks like tripersonality will be an essential divine attribute. Thus, it can seem axiomatic that “Christians hold that God is Trinitarian in God’s essential nature” (Davis and Yang 2017, 226). Some Trinity theories embrace this (section  2.5).  However, if this is so, it is hard to see how each of the Persons could be divine in the way the one God is divine, since generally trinitarians don’t want to say that each is himself tripersonal. (See section   2.1.5  for an exception.) Thus, some Trinity theories eschew a thing which is tripersonal, while affirming three divine Persons whose divinity does not require tripersonality (sections  2.1.3,  2.1.4). For such theories, “Trinity” is a plural referring term.