podcast 286 – Is the Trinity Essential? – Three Views
Is “the doctrine of the Trinity” essential to salvation? To Christianity?
Dale
Dale Tuggy (PhD Brown 2000) was Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia from 2000-2018. He now works outside of academia in Middle Tennessee but continues to learn and podcast.
podcast 285 – Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue – Part 4
If Jesus is referred to using the word “theos” (God) in the New Testament, does this imply that he is fully divine?
podcast 284 – Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue – Part 3
Does the famous “Great Commission” passage at the end of Matthew teach that the one God is a Trinity?
podcast 283 – Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue – Part 2
John 17:1-3, closing statements, and audience Q&A. Which side made the stronger case?
podcast 282 – Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue – Part 1
Part 1 of a dialogue from December 2019, including opening brief opening statements and a discussion of John 1.
podcast 281 – Introducing the Unitarian Christian Alliance
Board members explain their vision for the Unitarian Christian Alliance.
Who was born on the first Christmas?
What sort of baby was born to Joseph and Mary on the first Christmas?
Christmas Amazement
“Mary cradled the Creator in her arms. ‘I never imagined God would look like that,’ she says to herself.”
podcast 280 – Have yourself an Incarnation-free Christmas
Why no mention of Incarnation in the birth narratives of Matthew and Luke?
podcast 279 – Response to Burgos on Creation and the one God vs. the one Lord – Part 2
In what sense are “all things” from God and through Jesus?
podcast 149 – Dr. Larry Hurtado’s Destroyer of the gods – Part 1
Why did Roman rulers and polemicists find early Christianity so alarming, rather than just another religion?
podcast 100 – Dr. Larry Hurtado on God in New Testament Theology
Dr. Hurtado on his book God in New Testament Theology.
podcast 99 – Dr. Larry Hurtado on early high christology
Dr. Hurtado explains the term “early high christology” and what it means when applied to his own work.
podcast 278 – Response to Burgos on Creation and the one God vs. the one Lord – Part 1
The key to understanding the innovative New Testament usage of “Lord” is the much cited Psalm 110:1.
Hurtado on the early worship of Jesus
“…earliest believers treated the risen/exalted Jesus as they did only because they felt required to do so by God.”
Larry Hurtado on early Christians’ worship of Jesus
If the earliest Christians’ answer (re: how one can be a monotheist and yet worship both the one God and Jesus) was a good answer then, why isn’t it a good answer now?
R.I.P. Dr. Larry Hurtado
He argues cogently that even in the earliest parts of the New Testament, the religious worship of Jesus is presupposed, such as in Philippians 2.
podcast 277 – Was Christ tempted in every way?
Jesus is God, and God can’t be tempted… yet Jesus was tempted?