podcast 179 – Apologists on how God can die – Part 2
Can someone with two natures be essentially immortal and die?
Complaints
podcast 178 – Apologists on how God can die – Part 1
Can evangelical apologists answer the question “How can God die?”
10 Practical Tips for becoming a Worse Apologist
Steve Hays provides a stellar example of how not to do apologetics.
“Identifying Jesus as Yahweh” as heresy
McLatchie’s mistake about historical, mainstream Christian theologies.
podcast 171 – Assessing Athanasius and his Arguments
What should we think of Athanasius’s ferocious condemnations of those he termed “Arians”?
Keith Ward Trinity symposium in Philosophia Christi
Just got this in the mail; a very thorough symposium on Dr. Keith Ward’s Christ and the Cosmos,
podcast 166 – Alvan Lamson’s On the Doctrine of Two Natures in Jesus Christ – Part 2
Is the theory that Jesus has “two natures” more trouble than it’s worth?
“On Counting Gods” published in TheoLogica
My paper “On Counting Gods” has just been published in the new TheoLogica journal.
podcast 161 – Dr. Paul Moser on Conforming Philosophy to Christianity
“… and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”
podcast 154 – Mormons seeing the man behind the curtain – Part 2
A tightly knit religious group can ignore outsiders’ criticisms indefinitely. But when insiders…
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
An eternal dance of Three?
Perhaps the greatest issue for Social Trinitarians with respect to the Holy Spirit is “his” personhood.
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”?
10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #3 Take the mystery out of appeals to “mystery” – Part 4
For a few of the most serious and clever among us, mystery-mongering dies hard. They will stubbornly resist my previous attack on positive mysterianism about the Trinity, kicking back hard. I knew all along that the Trinity was going to be mysterious. And so now that I’ve discovered one way in which it is mysterious, well, I do celebrate it. You can rub my face… Read More »10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #3 Take the mystery out of appeals to “mystery” – Part 4
podcast 132 – 10 Apologists’ Mistakes about the Trinity – Part 2
Trinitarian theology is not served by sophistry, cheerleading, or ignoring relevant work. In this episode, I discuss five more apologetics face-plants about the Trinity.
10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #3 Take the mystery out of appeals to “mystery” – Part 2
Continuing our survey from last time, fifth, sometimes “the Trinity is a mystery” means that the doctrine of the Trinity is unintelligible, or nearly so. Some ancient “church Fathers” hold that the doctrine of the Trinity can’t be literally understood, so that we’re forced to use analogies to describe it, all of which are very bad analogies. But, they seem to think, piling bad analogy upon… Read More »10 steps towards getting less confused about the Trinity – #3 Take the mystery out of appeals to “mystery” – Part 2
podcast 131 – 10 Apologists’ Mistakes about the Trinity – Part 1
Apologetics is hard, because it’s hard be an expert on more than a few subjects. There’s a strong pressure to just recycle bad arguments and wrongheaded claims propounded by other apologists.
podcast 130 – Ehrman and Bird on How Jesus Became God – Part 3
Should Dr. Ehrman become a member of “the early high christology club”?