podcast 296 – Assessing Craig’s “Trinity Monotheism” – with Dale Glover – Part 1
A conversation on Dr. William Lane Craig’s unique take on the Trinity.
A conversation on Dr. William Lane Craig’s unique take on the Trinity.
In my view, the fourth has been the most misunderstood gospel.
You say you’ve looked into the biblical credentials of “the doctrine of the Trinity.” But have you actually read anything by unitarian Christians?
Did fourth century Christians come to a consensus about “the doctrine of the Trinity”?
“For all its complexity, the biblical doctrine of the Trinity can be stated in seven simple propositions.”
Is this “beginning” when the cosmos was created by God, or when it was “newly created” through the man Jesus?
Review of a learned and insightful yet deeply flawed book.
Ten basic questions that need to be answered, and ten more advanced questions.
Is the question absurd? Or does it make sense in light of New Testament teachings?
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:29:30 podcast 56 – Richard Swinburne on his life and work Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify In September of 2014 I was privileged to attend a conference in honor of the greatest living natural theologian. For the uninitiated, this is what “natural theology” is (also here). The initiated hold Swinburne in… Read More »podcast 56 – Richard Swinburne on his life and work
“The Gospel is Trinitarian.” What does this mean, and is it both true and non-trivial?
In this episode I respond to the interesting article “What about This View? How to Defend an Anti-Trinitarian Theology,” by evangelical apologist Dr. Robert M. Bowman Jr.
“Incarnation” means initially that God’s love and power had been experienced in fullest measure in, through and as this man Jesus.
Philip Clayton teaches theology and philosophy at the Claremont School of theology, and at the Claremont Graduate University.
He publishes a ton, and much of his work is in the science and religion genre. Unlike many authors in that genre, Clayton isn’t a scientist – his training is in theology, religious studies, and philosophy.
He’s also a co-founder of this Big Tent Christianity project, which aims in his words “to foster a radically different understanding of the heart of Christian faith” – different, that is, from the theologically and culturally conservative and liberal camps.
But our question is: Is God a self? What saith Clayton? Check out his interview (blue button), and then click here for my take -> Read More »Is God a Self? Part 3 – Clayton
Congratulations to both debaters on a fight well fought. (Here’s all the commentary.) Plenty of punches, thrown hard, relatively few low blows – two worthy opponents. Certainly, the fight must be decided on points, as there was no decisive knockout. Both debates are in different ways very impressive, and I learned a lot from both.
Kudos to C. Michael Patton and Parchment and Pen for hosting the debate.
I hope you readers out there enjoyed my commentary on the debate. I sometimes got naggy or nerdy, and always expressed myself with typical lack of tact, but I tried to be helpful, and to show the helpfulness of philosophy and logic in thinking through these things.
In this last post in the series, a few concluding reflections on the debate.
Looking back on this debate, I see that I’ve ended up where I began: wondering what Bowman thinks the Trinity doctrine is. This, after all the debate was about whether or not the Bible teaches that.
Burke argued that the Bible teaches what I call humanitarian unitarianism (he calls it “biblical unitarianism”) – roughly, that the one God of Israel is the Father, whereas the Lord Jesus is a human being and his unique Son, and the Holy Spirit is God’s power. I understand what Burke argued for, and if it is true, then nothing that can claim to be an orthodox Trinity theory is true. But I don’t, in the end, understand Bowman’s view.
I flagged this issue at the start. As the debate wore on, I settled on the interpretation that each of the Three just is (is numerically identical to) God, and yet each of the three is not identical to either of the other two. I stuck with this interpretation, all the way to the bitter end. And yet, I never did like this interpretation Read More »SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Final Reflections
Kimel lampoons the biblical unitarian historical narrative, and urges that Irenaeus is a big problem for it.
Rebutting a slanderous and careless “review” by a blogger.