podcast 123 – your official god vs. your actual god
What if the official god of your theology isn’t the one who actually gets his way in your life?
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podcast 122 – 7 Christians on 4 questions in the “same god” controversy
I say that we should distinguish between four questions which have arisen in this “same god” controversy.
podcast 121 – Do Christians and Muslims worship the same god? Part 2
In this second part of my discussion with Dr. William Vallicella, I give an argument that when Muslims use the word “Allah” they are referring to the same being Christians refer to when they say “God,” namely, the god of Abraham.
podcast 120 – Do Christians and Muslims worship the same god? Part 1
In this episode I’m joined by Dr. William Vallicella, aka “The Maverick Philosopher” to discuss the recent controversy
2015: the trinities podcast in review
2015 was a good year for the trinities podcast! Many thanks to those who supported it via PayPal or Amazon. Here are some highlights, month by month: January: podcast 70 – The one God and his Son according to John February: podcast 74 – Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho – Part 1 March: podcast 81 – Dr. Oliver Crisp on the breadth of Reformed tradition April: podcast 83 – The Spiritual… Read More »2015: the trinities podcast in review
podcast 119 – The Son of God 3 – Dr. Dustin Smith’s “Socinian” view of Jesus
In this last of three interviews with the authors of The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus, we talk with Dr. Dustin Smith of Atlanta Bible College.
podcast 118 – The Son of God 2 – Mr. Danny Andre Dixon’s “Arian” view of Jesus
Many Christians in the 2nd to the 4th centuries, and many since, have read the famous opening of the gospel according to John like this: In the beginning [i.e. at the Genesis creation, but not necessarily before] was the Word [i.e. the pre-human Jesus], and the Word was with God [i.e. the Father], and the Word was divine.
podcast 117 – The Son of God 1 – Dr. Lee Irons’s trinitarian view of Jesus
Dr. Lee Irons on his contribution to the new book The Son: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus, interview by Dr. Dale Tuggy for episode 117 of the trinities podcast.
podcast 116 – George R. Noyes’s Explanation of Isaiah 9:6 and John 1:1
Did Isaiah predict that someday God would become a baby?
podcast 115 – the aborted council at Serdica in 343
The eastern emperor and the western emperor agreed: there needed to be a new ecumenical council to somehow solve the theological disagreements festering from the controversy over Arius in 324-5.
podcast 114 – the recycled creed (342-359)
This “Fourth Creed” was offered as a non-controversial, “big tent,” ecumenical summary of faith. And surprisingly, given its initial reception, its language ended up being re-used several times after, as catholics struggled to replace the language of Nicea with something more widely acceptable.
podcast 113 – the council at Antioch in 341
What happened after the famous council at Nicea in 325? Was there rejoicing and peace, now that the “Arian” controversy had been definitively settled? Sadly, no.
podcast 112 – Dr. Joseph Jedwab on divine omnipresence – Part 2
In this second philosophical conversation with Dr. Joseph Jedwab we discuss some of his reasons for thinking that God is strictly aspatial but loosely spatial and present at all places.
podcast 111 – Dr. Joseph Jedwab on divine omnipresence – Part 1
Theologians say that God is everywhere, which is to say omnipresent or ubiquitous. But why do that say this, and what does the claim mean?
podcast 110 – Dr. Keith Ward on Christ and the Cosmos – Part 2
What does it mean to say that God is triune? Is this to say that the one God is a loving community of three divine selves? Or is there but one self common to the Trinity?
podcast 109 – Dr. Keith Ward on Christ and the Cosmos – Part 1
Dr. Keith Ward is a prolific and influential theologian, philosopher, and scholar of religions. He’s also an Anglican priest. In this first of two interviews on his 2015 book Christ and the Cosmos: A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine, we discuss his christology, how to understand what is unique about the man Jesus.
podcast 108 – Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr. on triadic New Testament passages – part 2
In this episode Dr. Bowman and I continue our discussion from last week, about some of the New Testament passages he discusses in his “Triadic New Testament Passages and the Doctrine of the Trinity.”
podcast 107 – Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr. on triadic New Testament passages – part 1
At the end of the gospel according to Matthew, Jesus is portrayed as saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…”
podcast 106 – Dr. James Spiegel on unbelief and belief in the Bible
Does the Bible say in the fourteenth Psalm that atheists are fools? And what about Paul’s critiques of the Gentiles in Romans and Ephesians – do these teach that atheism is caused, in all cases, by willful rejection of God, preferring sin to acknowledging him?
podcast 105 – Dr. James Spiegel on The Making of an Atheist
In his 2010 book The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief, Dr. James Spiegel, professor of Philosophy and Religion at Taylor University, argues that unbelief results more from the will than from the mind. Drawing on the Bible, Plantingian epistemology, and contemporary psychology, in this book he builds a theory of the source of atheistic belief.