podcast 179 – Apologists on how God can die – Part 2
Can someone with two natures be essentially immortal and die?
Heresy & Orthodoxy
podcast 176 – Photinus of Sirmium
His views seem to have been those of present-day biblical unitarians.
Pawl’s Promise
“I will host a bonfire at which I and any of you who feel inclined can come and burn our copies of this book.”
podcast 175 – Marcellus of Ancyra
Marcellus’s theology is a key to understanding the post-Nicea controversies.
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 174 – The First Sirmian creed (351)
In the reign of Constantius II yet another council offered language to replace Nicea…
podcast 173 – Eusebius of Caesarea
Why did Eusebius have to submit his own creed at the famous council of Nicea in 325?
podcast 172 – The Creed of the Long Lines (344)
In 344 a meeting of Eastern bishops sent a statement to the West explaining their theology.
podcast 170 – Athanasius’s On the Nicene Council – Part 2
In this episode we hear the rest (chapters 4-7) of On the Nicene Council (aka Defence of the Nicene Definition, De Decretis) by Athanasius of Alexandria.
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 158 – Listener Questions 3
An appealing theological option which is neither Nicene nor “Arian”?
podcast 144 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 2
Is Jesus both mutable and immutable?
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.
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?
God and Deus
Bill Vallicella, the famous Maverick Philosopher, just dropped me a line asking whether, when Thomas Aquinas and Baruch Spinoza use the term ‘Deus’, they are referring to the same being. This is a difficult and interesting question. Bill uses the Latin name ‘Deus’, alluding to the fact that both men wrote in Latin. Latin was the choice of the ‘scholastic’ theologians of the 13th century,… Read More »God and Deus
God and Allah
Last month my publisher gave the green light to start work on The Same God? Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures. Yes, that old question of whether Muslims worship the same God as Christians, which surfaced again last year when Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor at Wheaton College, was suspended following her Facebook post citing Pope Francis’s statement that Muslims and Christians… Read More »God and Allah
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.
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.