 Stephen Layman (2016) has constructed a similar and arguably better developed three-self Trinity theory. Motivated by the New Testament, Layman says that the three Persons of the Trinity are three selves (124–31). Each is “divine” in that he is a fitting object of worship, and so is God the Trinity. God the Trinity is literally a social entity, a concrete, primary substance which is strongly analogous to a living thing, and which like a living thing is a self-maintaining event (149–50). “Strictly speaking, only the Trinity, the community of divine persons, is God, that is, ruler of all” (148). Yet the Persons are “of one substance” in that “each belongs to the kind divine being”, where this means a person which is a part of a god (150–1, 165–6).