podcast 364 – The God who Suffers: a Response to The Reluctant Theologian Podcast 118 Why did God become incarnate?
Evaluating three proposed reasons why God would be motivated to incarnate.
Atonement
podcast 333 – The Arguments of “God’s Death”
A humorous puppet-show about a serious subject: properly understanding what the New Testament teaches about Jesus and God.
podcast 313 – Weighing Channing Unitarianism
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
podcast 310 – Channing’s “Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered”
Does unitarian Christianity “deny the Divinity of Christ,” preach “morality,” and teach salvation by works?
podcast 309 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 2
The anti-Calvinist side of early American unitarian Congregationalist Christianity.
podcast 199 – Robert Hach’s The Passion and Persuasion – Part 2
Do we need reconciliation to God, while he doesn’t need reconciliation to us?
podcast 198 – Robert Hach’s The Passion and Persuasion – Part 1
Does God’s justice demand that he can’t forgive unless he gets full payment for sin?
podcast 197 – Noah Worcester on Atonement – Part 2
Did Christ die in order to display God’s love for us, rather than his wrath towards us?
podcast 187 – Dr. Paul W. Newman’s Spirit Christology – Part 1
How widely has God’s spirit been active in the world?
Christ didn’t die, but only experienced another’s death?
Did Jesus only experience the death of another, without dying?
podcast 175 – Marcellus of Ancyra
Marcellus’s theology is a key to understanding the post-Nicea controversies.
podcast 171 – Assessing Athanasius and his Arguments
What should we think of Athanasius’s ferocious condemnations of those he termed “Arians”?
podcast 168 – The Death of Unitarian Congregationalism
How and why did American Unitarian Congregationalism die?
podcast 167 – Lamson’s History of The Unitarian Congregationalists
In this episode we hear a voice from 1852 describing a lost species of American Christianity:
podcast 145 – ‘Tis Mystery All: the Immortal dies!
God is immortal. But Jesus died. Does it follow that Jesus is not God?
podcast 138 – Pastor Sean Finnegan’s “Why Did Jesus Die?”
In this talk from the 2016 Theological Conference, Pastor Sean Finnegan discusses the biblical data about why Jesus died, and lays out seven options for understanding Jesus’s unique atonement.
a mini-course on atonement by Dr. Josh Thurow
I’ve received some excellent feedback on my two podcast episodes with Dr. Josh Thurow (University of Texas at San Antonio) on theories of atonement in Christian theology. Now, courtesy of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion (subscribe here) you can hear and see him explaining the basic ideas. Here’s your mini-course on atonement. First, watch these: Now, listen to the trinities podcast episodes, which… Read More »a mini-course on atonement by Dr. Josh Thurow
podcast 92 – Dr. Joshua Thurow on objections to atonement theories
In the first portion of this episode Dr. Thurow offers objections to subjective theories, and to penal substitution, ransom, and christus victor theories of atonement. Dr. Thurow then sketches his own, original approach to understanding atonement, which focuses on the collective sin of the human race.