podcast 317 – Debate with Rogers – Does Mark teach that Jesus is God? – Part 1
What is the main thesis of the earliest Christian gospel?
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.
Culture Warrior or Kingdom Warrior?
“But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell of fire.”
podcast 316 – Review of Papandrea, Trinity 101: Father, Son, Holy Spirit
“…the doctrine of the Trinity is not in Scripture per se, but is the result of the Church’s interpretation of Scripture.”
podcast 315 – Review of Ryken and LeFebvre, Our Triune God
“For all its complexity, the biblical doctrine of the Trinity can be stated in seven simple propositions.”
Bird on Justin Martyr on the Logos
For Justin, is Jesus “distinct in number, but not in substance” from the Father?
podcast 314 – 10 Fundamental Questions about the Trinity
Ten basic questions that need to be answered, and ten more advanced questions.
podcast 313 – Weighing Channing Unitarianism
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
podcast 311 – Channing’s “The Evidences of Revealed Religion”
Is it reasonable to believe in the reported miracles of early Christianity?
“trinitarians,” trinitarians, and me
In the New Testament “God” is nearly always the Father. But what follows from that, exactly?
“The Trinity” – Whatever it is, smart guys believe it.
“I do not know what the Christians mean, and am as much puzzled as you; but Father Verbiest is of that opinion.”
Revised version of “Trinity” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
I see trends in this analytic theology literature somewhat towards relative identity theories, and towards “metaphysical madness.”
podcast 310 – Channing’s “Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered”
Does unitarian Christianity “deny the Divinity of Christ,” preach “morality,” and teach salvation by works?
Martineau: What’s left after historical inquiry unravels “the Trinity”?
“The dissolution of a mythology is no less natural a process than its growth, and is indeed secured the moment we have discovered how it has grown…”
podcast 309 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 2
The anti-Calvinist side of early American unitarian Congregationalist Christianity.
podcast 308 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 1
A famous manifesto of unitarian Christianity from 1819
podcast 307 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 3
Dr. Michael Bird argues that in Mark, Jesus is “included in the identity” of God.
podcast 306 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 2
Does the Gospel According to Mark contain as hidden messages the deity of Christ and the Trinity?
podcast 305 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 1
What sort of book is the gospel according to Mark, and what does it really claim about Jesus?