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.
Evaluating three proposed reasons why God would be motivated to incarnate.
A humorous puppet-show about a serious subject: properly understanding what the New Testament teaches about Jesus and God.
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
Does unitarian Christianity “deny the Divinity of Christ,” preach “morality,” and teach salvation by works?
The anti-Calvinist side of early American unitarian Congregationalist Christianity.
Do we need reconciliation to God, while he doesn’t need reconciliation to us?
Does God’s justice demand that he can’t forgive unless he gets full payment for sin?
Did Christ die in order to display God’s love for us, rather than his wrath towards us?
How widely has God’s spirit been active in the world?
Did Jesus only experience the death of another, without dying?
Marcellus’s theology is a key to understanding the post-Nicea controversies.
What should we think of Athanasius’s ferocious condemnations of those he termed “Arians”?
How and why did American Unitarian Congregationalism die?
In this episode we hear a voice from 1852 describing a lost species of American Christianity:
God is immortal. But Jesus died. Does it follow that Jesus is not God?
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.
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
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.