podcast 181 – White’s case for the Trinity – Part 1
Is this a powerful, state-of-the-art biblical argument for the Trinity?
Unitarianism
podcast 176 – Photinus of Sirmium
His views seem to have been those of present-day biblical unitarians.
podcast 175 – Marcellus of Ancyra
Marcellus’s theology is a key to understanding the post-Nicea controversies.
“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 168 – The Death of Unitarian Congregationalism
How and why did American Unitarian Congregationalism die?
podcast 167 – Lamson’s History of The Unitarian Congregationalists
In this episode we hear a voice from 1852 describing a lost species of American Christianity:
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?
podcast 165 – Alvan Lamson’s On the Doctrine of Two Natures in Jesus Christ – Part 1
All Christians have always believed that Jesus Christ is one person with two natures, a divine nature and a human nature, right?
podcast 164 – On Counting Gods
The terms “atheism,” “monotheism,” and “polytheism” seem straightforward enough… BUT important ambiguity lurks in the root term “theism.”
“On Counting Gods” published in TheoLogica
My paper “On Counting Gods” has just been published in the new TheoLogica journal.
podcast 158 – Listener Questions 3
An appealing theological option which is neither Nicene nor “Arian”?
podcast 156 – Dr. J.R. Daniel Kirk on A Man Attested by God – Part 2
If Jesus fulfills predictions about Yahweh, does this mean that he’s Yahweh?
“paterderivationism,” monotheism, and “mono-theos-ism”
A question from the Facebook group a few weeks ago: …One model of the Trinity that I’ve heard articulated–call it “paterderivationism”–says that the way in which the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are homoousios is the same way in which Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus may be called “homoousios”: they share the same kind of nature, though… not the same instance of that nature. According to… Read More »“paterderivationism,” monotheism, and “mono-theos-ism”
podcast 145 – ‘Tis Mystery All: the Immortal dies!
God is immortal. But Jesus died. Does it follow that Jesus is not God?
podcast 140 – Pastor J. Dan Gill’s The One
Pastor J. Dan Gill was a third-generation Oneness (aka “Jesus only”) Pentecostal, but he started to notice a disconnect between their ways of talking about Jesus and what we read in the Bible.