Who’s up for a little trinitarian comedy?
Thanks to reader Mike K. for this hilarious link. They beat me to the punch - I’ve been sitting on a post for some time on this exact theme. (Stay tuned.)
I posted a comment asking about this bit:
It’s interesting to note that the English term “Trinitarian” was first used, [...]
Father, Son, Holy Spirit?
A professor friend emailed me recently:
I’ve lately been reading a book (at a student’s request) …a piece of bad Christian fiction called “The Shack” by William P. Young. … it might interest you in light of your trinitarian research. The persons of the Trinity make an appearance in the story: God [...]
Saith Grok: “Love thy neighbor, and buyest thou all thine goods at WalMart.”
Is Allah God? Are Christians and Muslims talking about (numerically) the same God? We’ve previously linked and joined in with discussions with Jeremy Pierce and with Kevin Corcoran.
To further the discussion, I present a tale to explain why I think it [...]
“God” in Arabic. (image credit)
A continuing theme in the Christian blogosphere, which we discussed before (God = Allah?) - now Calvin College philosopher Kevin Corcoran, on his blog Holy Skin and Bone, asks:
Is the God of Christians the God of Muslims Too?
Corcoran answers a firm “yes”, and sort of scolds evangelicals who say “no”. He [...]
Don’t you dare do what dastardly Donald does.
Our friend Alan Rhoda, the mighty Alanyzer, has some interesting thoughts on what he calls the “Theologian’s Fallacy”, or “Trumping”.
I see his point, though I don’t like the names
This one goes out to our friend Bill, a.k.a. the Maverick Philosopher, a.k.a. blogger on sabbatical.
It’s going to be long month! “Just one little post, one little post!”
Seriously, I completely understand Bill’spain. Blogging can prevent one from following up on and developing ideas all the way through - as in all the way through [...]
3 dodecahedron-shaped statues?
The human idea factory (I think he’ll take that as a compliment ) has again returned to the Trinity:
Alexander Pruss’s Blog: Another analogy for the Trinity?
He imagines a scenario in which three different statues are simultaneously made of the same quantity of material. This scenario, he holds, is logically impossible. Nonetheless, he [...]
Mmmm… baby soup - the delicious end to any traditional baptism.
“Father, Son, Holy Spirit”? Or “Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier”? The editors of the flagship magazine of American evangelicalism weigh in here: Blessed Be the Name of the Lord | Christianity Today
While I share the editors’ irritation with politically correct revision of liturgical and theological language, I [...]
Hi Everybody?
Trinity? Suuuure - I know all about those things!
I’ve always been interested in not only what intellectuals think about the Trinity, but also about what ordinary Christians think. Thus, this is an interesting find - five helpful wikites step in to wiki-answer the following important questions:
WikiAnswers - What is the trinity and could you [...]
What’s up with that weird Angel/bird/snake thing? Is that supposed to be Arius?
At BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - The Nicene Creed - A somewhat gassy and academic but nonetheless listenable discussion. Here’s the Real Audio file link. (I thought I listened to this in another audio format, but I can’t find any [...]
Here: Logic Matters: Philosophy of Religion 3: The Trinity Philosopher/blogger/Analysis editor Peter Smith of Cambridge discusses his reading of this book by Rea and Murray, which I’ve been looking forward to seeing. He’s, um, not terribly sympathetic, and tends towards a harsh and dismissive tone. But, he does (I assume, accurately) summarize their conclusions, and [...]
Some famous hippie theology… or maybe ethics. All right, maybe just music and wallowing in chummy feelings.
Alex @ Alexander Pruss’s Blog urges that even non-social trinitarians can make a priori arguments for their trinitarian theology based on the concept of perfection.
I don’t think these sorts of arguments work, as I explain in a comment [...]
Read it ‘n weep, Arius!
Not sure what it’s doing on LiveScience.com, but it’s a decent article.
We covered this in more theological detail some time back.
The trinity occurs at :55 and 1:13. Even sorta looks like a church. There’s other rich trinitarian imagery there as well, for those with eyes to see.
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So that’s where the magic is.
People interested in ancient heresies - you have to check out this, by “Probably the world’s greatest systematic theologian cartoonist.”
Jack T. Chick has got nothing on our friend Fred! Nice work, Fred.
Background: Fred is goofing on a long-extinct sect that was famously embraced by St. Augustine (354-430 CE) [...]
Does this refer to God?
An interesting discussion, with some links, by philosopher Parableman Jeremy Pierce: Muslims Worshiping God But Not Worshiping God. His view, as against some recent pastors and other folks, is that yes, Muslims do refer to the being that Christians acknowledge as the one true God, when they use the word “Allah”.
[Saith [...]
Can’t make this stuff up: The Brick Testament: Holy Trinity
Natch, a Trinity of comments:
The Father looks kind of mad.
The Holy Ghost seems to have been designed by someone who was a little too literal-minded! Reminds me of one of Charlie Brown’s friends, out trick-or-treating.
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Technorati Tags: Trinity art, lego [...]
He’s baaaaack. A smokier, bluesier, dirtier “Trinity Schminity”. Now in basement music video form! Apparently there’s been some big shakeup in the band. Their website says “we are now a Christian father and son band”. Mother and daughter, we hardly knew ye.
Thankfully, they’re still “100% monotheist”. And they still ROCK.
Get it? Winter has [...]
Who’s next? Anyone? Anyone? (sound of crickets chirping)
So far, the Survey of Trinitarian Belief (background) has been a failure. We simply have not been able to get enough people to take it.
We chose as a target population seminarians, hoping that enough theology profs would want to participate with their classes in the survey (profs get [...]
You tell ‘em, Joe.
An interesting post & discussion:
Alexander Pruss’s Blog: Liberal theology
I think a lot of liberal theologians don’t have a “high view of reason” - many (not all) of them strike me as lazy drifters on miscellaneous intellectual currents. e.g. Has anyone’s reason really revealed to them, so to speak, that miracles don’t [...]
