podcast 313 – Weighing Channing Unitarianism
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
The anti-Calvinist side of early American unitarian Congregationalist Christianity.
Is it reasonable to believe in the reported miracles of early Christianity?
A famous manifesto of unitarian Christianity from 1819
Does unitarian Christianity “deny the Divinity of Christ,” preach “morality,” and teach salvation by works?
A penetrating discussion of John 1 by famous Harvard scholar Andrews Norton.
“I had come to this belief truly just through studying the Word.”
In this episode we hear a voice from 1852 describing a lost species of American Christianity:
What, if anything, is wrong with with the strategy of Resolution through Rational Reinterpretation? And why are most theologians so cold towards this strategy, while most Christian philosophers love it? Consider this quote by Moses Stuart on one of Leibniz’s takes on the Trinity:
The celebrated Leibniz was requested by a Loefler, who had undertaken to refute the writings of a certain English Antitrinitarian, to give him an affirmative definition of the persons in the Godhead. He sent for answer the following: – “Several persons in an absolute substance numerically the same, signify several, particular, intelligent substances essentially related.” On farther consideration, he abandoned this, and sent a second, which was, – “Several persons, in an absolute substance numerically the same, mean relative, incommunicable modes of subsisting.”
If Leibniz actually understood this, I believe he must have been a better master of metaphysics than any person who has ever read his definition.Read More »Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 8 – Rational Reinterpretation, cont.
“The Gospel is Trinitarian.” What does this mean, and is it both true and non-trivial?
A prolific apologist embraces so-called “monarchical trinitarianism,” on which the one God just is the Father, not the Trinity.