podcast 231 – Swinburne’s Social Theory of the Trinity
A leading Christian philosopher explains his “Social” Trinity theory.
Holy Spirit
Steve Hays vs. Lexicons, deep thoughts on OT “binitarianism”
More lessons on how not to do apologetics, from a Master.
podcast 200 – Kermit Zarley on Reformation – Part 1
Is reforming in light of scripture only acceptable in the distant past?
Dialogue with John on Thinking about the Trinity
At his blog Faith & Scripture, my friend John interacts with the questions for the reader in chapter 10.
podcast 191 – Ware’s Outline of the Testimony of Scripture Against the Trinity
A concise and clear case that the NT authors held a unitarian theology.
podcast 188 – Dr. Paul W. Newman’s Spirit Christology – Part 2
“Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee… He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.”
podcast 187 – Dr. Paul W. Newman’s Spirit Christology – Part 1
How widely has God’s spirit been active in the world?
What is essential to the gospel, according to Luke? Part 4
The apostles testify to God the creator and his holy servant Jesus.
What is essential to the gospel, according to Luke? Part 3
Peter and John address the Jewish leadership.
podcast 176 – Photinus of Sirmium
His views seem to have been those of present-day biblical unitarians.
podcast 158 – Listener Questions 3
An appealing theological option which is neither Nicene nor “Arian”?
podcast 140 – Pastor J. Dan Gill’s The One
Pastor J. Dan Gill was a third-generation Oneness (aka “Jesus only”) Pentecostal, but he started to notice a disconnect between their ways of talking about Jesus and what we read in the Bible.
An eternal dance of Three?
Perhaps the greatest issue for Social Trinitarians with respect to the Holy Spirit is “his” personhood.
podcast 127 – Kermit Zarley’s Solving the Samaritan Riddle
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
“God” in the Challenge argument
Still waiting for substantial replies to my Challenge to evangelical “Jesus is God” apologists. Some have worried that the meaning of “God” is somehow problematic here. There is an ambiguity here, but it is deliberate, and is a virtue of the argument. You can take “God” here to be either the Father (as in the NT) or the Trinity (as in trinitarian traditions) – either… Read More »“God” in the Challenge argument
Anatolios on Eusebius on the Holy Spirit
From Dr. Anatolios’s book Retrieving Nicea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine, describing the theology of Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260 – c. 339): Eusebius conceives of the Spirit as the next level down in the chain of being and willing that descends from the Father and the Son. While he is ambiguous on the neuralgic question of the creaturehood of the Son, he… Read More »Anatolios on Eusebius on the Holy Spirit
podcast 110 – Dr. Keith Ward on Christ and the Cosmos – Part 2
What does it mean to say that God is triune? Is this to say that the one God is a loving community of three divine selves? Or is there but one self common to the Trinity?