podcast 52 – John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity, Part 1
What are the essential teachings which one must accept to be a Christian?
What are the essential teachings which one must accept to be a Christian?
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:34:05 podcast 54 – John Edwards vs. John Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify John Edwards (1637-1726) was an Anglican Calvinist and would-be defender of Christian orthodoxy. Seemingly at the last minute, he tacked on to his Some Thoughts Concerning the Several Causes and Occasions of Atheism… Read More »podcast 54 – John Edwards vs. John Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity
Locke fired back twice against Edwards’s criticisms of Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity.
Has “Science” shown that all causes are natural? Philosopher of science Dr. Jeffrey Koperski doesn’t think so.
Does unitarian Christianity “deny the Divinity of Christ,” preach “morality,” and teach salvation by works?
Theologians say that God is everywhere, which is to say omnipresent or ubiquitous. But why do that say this, and what does the claim mean?
It has occurred to me that many readers, especially new readers, may misread my ongoing discussion of modalism and modalists. As I use the term “modalism”, it is a descriptive term for how some people think about one or more of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Most people, though, use it as a tag for a certain heretical theology, long denounced by mainstream Christianity.… Read More »modalism and “modalism”
Trinitarian theologies are a major barrier to Muslims accepting Christianity. In this episode we hear how Mr. Qureshi changed his view that the Trinity is a patently ridiculous doctrine.
In this interesting presentation called “Yet Another Music City Miracle” pastor J. Dan Gill points out that the way evangelicals evangelize is incompatible with the old catholic tradition, famously asserted in the “Athanasian” creed, Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith; Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish… Read More »J. Dan Gill: Must one believe in the Trinity and the two natures of Jesus to be saved?
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:38:41 podcast 53 – John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity, Part 2 Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify This week I start with a long and insightful listener comment. Among other things, he asks how one’s theology as unitarian or trinitarian affect one’s discipleship, or how one follows Jesus as Lord. I… Read More »podcast 53 – John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity, Part 2
“Incarnation” means initially that God’s love and power had been experienced in fullest measure in, through and as this man Jesus.
Here, courtesy of youtube is the main text discussed in the trinities podcast episode 62: John 8:12-59, culminating in “Before Abraham was, I am.” This is from the excellent 2003 Gospel of John movie, which is in my view the best Jesus movie, despite its bold choice to use every word in the Gospel of John. It is well acted and well staged, though long.… Read More »John 8 brought to life
You think that Jesus was good. But do you also think that Jesus was smart?
At his blog Faith & Scripture, my friend John interacts with the questions for the reader in chapter 10.
At Dustin Martyr, theologian Dr. Dustin Smith gives a forceful critique of Bart Ehrman’s appeal to “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30) to show that the Gospel of John presents Jesus either as God himself, or as “equal to God” (where this doesn’t imply that he’s God himself). …this is disappointing… because even the most conservative scholars of Johannine literature don’t interpret John 10:30 as… Read More »Ehrman’s misreading of John 10:30
An interview by Dustin of The DustinMartyr Blog – it’s McInteresting! …the early Christian apologists, such as Justin Martyr, were not arguing about monotheism with their Jewish contemporaries. They were arguing over whether Jesus was the Messiah, and whether certain things can be said about this man who was crucified, and things like that. But we don’t find monotheism as the topic. For me, the… Read More »James McGrath on the Gospel of John and Christology
Live-streamed discussions with Josiah of Integrity Syndicate on two famously difficult New Testament texts.
The original meaning of John 1, disentangled from later speculations about Trinity and two natures christology.
A forgotten 4th c. debate: Is the Logos of John 1 a divine being in addition to God, or a power and energy of God?