podcast 151 – Dr. Michael Rota on Pascal’s Wager
What if you believe in Christianity, and it’s false? Have you lost much, really?
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 150 – Dr. Larry Hurtado’s Destroyer of the gods – Part 2
In this second part of my conversation with Dr. Larry Hurtado about his book Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World, we discuss the distinctive “bookishness” of early Christianity
“paterderivationism,” monotheism, and “mono-theos-ism”
A question from the Facebook group a few weeks ago: …One model of the Trinity that I’ve heard articulated–call it “paterderivationism”–says that the way in which the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are homoousios is the same way in which Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus may be called “homoousios”: they share the same kind of nature, though… not the same instance of that nature. According to… Read More »“paterderivationism,” monotheism, and “mono-theos-ism”
the apologetics blind-spot on numerical identity
Here’s part of a conversation I had recently with a guy in a Facebook group who when it comes to theology consumes almost only evangelical apologetics sources. I’m going to call him “Tim” here. The conversation illustrates a blind spot that I often run into, a blind spot which results from people who study apologetics being insufficiently trained in logic. All the non-theological points I… Read More »the apologetics blind-spot on numerical identity
podcast 148 – Dr. Daniel McKaughan on faith – Part 2
If faith is not simply believing that some doctrine is true, what is it?
podcast 147 – Dr. Daniel McKaughan on faith – Part 1
Is faith, as Mark Twain quipped, believing what you know ain’t so?
podcast 145 – ‘Tis Mystery All: the Immortal dies!
God is immortal. But Jesus died. Does it follow that Jesus is not God?
podcast 144 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 2
Is Jesus both mutable and immutable?
podcast 143 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 1
Is “conciliar christology” coherent?
podcast 142 – Dr. R.T. Mullins on the coherence of “classical” theism
What is “classical” theism, and why is it controversial?
podcast 141 – Dr. R.T. Mullins – Is God timeless?
Is God “outside of time”? What does this claim mean, and should a Christian affirm it?
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.
10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #1 Who’s to say? – Part 2
Plausibly, most Protestant scholars who think that the Bible teaches the Trinity focus on the New Testament. They argue that while trinitarianism isn’t explicit there, it is implicit.
10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #1 Who’s to say? – Part 1
One thing that makes disputes about the Trinity intractable is the fact that different Christians have different views about just where authoritative Christian tradition is to be found.
10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #2 Get clear about “God”
What sort of being is “God” supposed to be? Your answer to this will constrain your options when it comes to thinking about the Trinity. The “Trinity” (in the primary sense of the term) is supposed to be none other than the triune God, the tripersonal God of officially catholic traditions since the late 4th century. In other words, the Trinity and God are supposed… Read More »10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #2 Get clear about “God”
An eternal dance of Three?
Perhaps the greatest issue for Social Trinitarians with respect to the Holy Spirit is “his” personhood.
podcast 139 – Two Perspectives on the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church
Is the Doctrine of the Trinity articulated in the New Testament?
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.
podcast 137 – Daniel Whitby’s “Mystery and Revelation Inconsistent”
Should we defend what we think are biblical, yet unintelligible or seemingly incoherent claims as “mysteries”?