  Another view, though, is implicit in the position of many second and third century church fathers, some western Christian Platonists, and the Eastern Orthodox Church as a    whole.[1]   The Trinitarian views of Ralph Cudworth (1617–88) are fairly typical of this position. There are three hypostases or “persons.” Each has its own individual essence. But all share a common specific or generic essence (namely, divinity), so that each member of the Trinity is eternal, necessarily existent, omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and the like.