the evolution of my views on the Trinity – part 4
Just starting to think about the Trinity, as a Masters student.
Just starting to think about the Trinity, as a Masters student.
In this series I’m going to get a bit more personal.
Rebuttals are the hardest parts of a debate – the hardest part to perform, and the hardest to listen to.
Sean Finnegan is an intelligent and well spoken “Biblical Unitarian” Christian. He recently earned an M.A. in Church History from Boston University. He runs the christianmonotheism website, which aggregates work by contemporary Christian unitarians. I was pleased to meet him at a recent conference, at which he gave a fascinating presentation on how many (but not all) “church fathers” rejected the everlasting earthly Kingdom in favor of “going to heaven,” i.e. a non-bodily afterlife.
Here’s a blog post by Sean on the debate I’ll be reviewing below.
Brent Bosserman was at the time of the debate an adjunct professor at Northwest University in Washington state. I believe he’s still there, but can’t find out much about him online. But here’s a long 2007 talk of his, called “Christianity and Trinitarian Worldview.” He talks at the start about his background.
This debate suffers by not having a precisely defined debate question. While Finnegan mostly sticks to the biblical case for his view and against Bosserman’s, Bosserman pulls out a broad brush and tries to compare all-encompassing “worldviews.” This is not a good idea; a debate is finite in time!
The intros are over-long and intrusive here; I’ve skipped you to the actual start. My summaries and commentary follow.
A conversation on Dr. William Lane Craig’s unique take on the Trinity.
Theologian Roger Olson asks, How important is the doctrine of the Trinity? He seems to hold, with many others, that …the doctrine of the Trinity is crucial, essential, indispensable to a robust and healthy Christian view of God. But, The problem is, of course, that many, perhaps most, Christians have little or no understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. And they couldn’t care less. Indeed.… Read More »Roger Olson asks: How important is the doctrine of the Trinity?
Does it make sense to say that God is a soul with three cognitive and volitional faculties – but is nonetheless not a self?
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:29:07 podcast 10 – Dr. Scott Williams on “Latin” Trinity Theories Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify This week, an interview with Dr. Scott Williams, an analytic theologian, trained by some of the best out there, who loves to tackle those hard to read medieval philosopher-theologians like John Duns Scotus, Thomas… Read More »podcast 10 – Dr. Scott Williams on “Latin” Trinity Theories
Do I ignore “the” being/Person distinction?
Biblical unitarianism vs. what Dale calls one-self trinitarianism.
Exploring a new argument against any sort of catholic Trinity theory.
Who needs the Bible when you can gesture at some philosophical speculations?
The key to understanding the innovative New Testament usage of “Lord” is the much cited Psalm 110:1.
The terms “atheism,” “monotheism,” and “polytheism” seem straightforward enough… BUT important ambiguity lurks in the root term “theism.”
Many are moving from a trinitarian understanding to a unitarian understanding of Christian theology. But not all of their reasons are good reasons…
Part 1 of a dialogue from December 2019, including opening brief opening statements and a discussion of John 1.
Is there a plausible and biblical “doctrine of the Trinity”?
0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:24:17 podcast 19 – Lewis vs. Rogers 3 – second rebuttals and closing statements Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify Episode 19 – the final segment of the Lewis-Rogers debate: Is the Trinity polytheism? In this last of our three segments, our debaters each give a second seven-minute rebuttal, and then… Read More »podcast 19 – Lewis vs. Rogers 3 – second rebuttals and closing statements