De Trinitate
Boethius, De Trinitate (Opuscula Sacra I)
Boethius (c. 477–524)
The Trinity worked through with Aristotle’s own toolkit, and nothing left over.
- Catch rate
- 46 / 255
- Base research
- 150
- Stat total
- 264
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
A few pages, and every one of them takes a category Aristotle used for created things and asks whether it can be said of God at all. It contends by being exact.
It is the tractate the schoolmen actually taught from when they taught the Trinity — Gilbert of Poitiers wrote a whole commentary on it. A text that became a set text defends well.
Short and much-copied. It reaches the table quickly and it does not waste the visit.
Cited for this book
Addressed to his father-in-law Symmachus, who would be executed beside him. Boethius asks how the Persons can be three and the substance one, and answers with the categories: substance holds the Unity, relation makes the Trinity, and a relation divides nothing.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only by Relation | Theology Proper | Argument | 90 | 100% | 10 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 18 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 24 | Form Without Matter | Natural Theology | Argument | 80 | 100% | 10 |
| 30 | Question the Premise | Rationality | Type shift | — | — | 10 |