podcast 339 – Does the New Testament teach that Jesus is truly divine? – Loke vs. Tuggy – Part 1
Opening statements and rebuttals.
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.
Opening statements and rebuttals.
Live-streamed discussions with Josiah of Integrity Syndicate on two famously difficult New Testament texts.
The original meaning of John 1, disentangled from later speculations about Trinity and two natures christology.
Could each divine “Person” of the Trinity be either an attribute of God or God together with an attribute?
Is there a Trinity theory which is both orthodox and coherent? One apologist’s suggestions, with commentary.
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things, love.” So far, so good. But, what does Scripture say is essential teaching about Christ and about God?
What would we expect to find in the New Testament writings if the authors thought Jesus was a man, a god, or a godman?
A humorous puppet-show about a serious subject: properly understanding what the New Testament teaches about Jesus and God.
Would you stand by your biblical convictions at the cost of your job and your freedom?
A forgotten 4th c. debate: Is the Logos of John 1 a divine being in addition to God, or a power and energy of God?
“Incarnation” means initially that God’s love and power had been experienced in fullest measure in, through and as this man Jesus.
What the priest was thinking in charging Jesus with “blasphemy.”
Is Jesus in Mark 14 claiming to be a divine Person within God?
Is E.J. Lowe’s four-category ontology the key to solving the multiple-natures and multiple-modes problems?
Does a doctrine of divine processions entail that the Son is less divine than the Father?
Is the idea of essence the key to understanding Bauckham’s christology of divine identity?
Many are moving from a trinitarian understanding to a unitarian understanding of Christian theology. But not all of their reasons are good reasons…