“What, is the Son supposed to be an atheist?” – Part 2
“Difference in function does not indicate inferiority in nature.”
“Difference in function does not indicate inferiority in nature.”
Well, OF COURSE God incarnate will have the Father as his god.
“The Trinity doctrine, at least for orthodox Christians, is found in the seven ecumenical councils.”
From a few months back, a very interesting post on Isaac Newton by Brandon, over at Siris. Newton’s is a part of a big, long, interesting and interlocking set of stories about subordinationists, “Arians”, and “Unitarians” in late 17th and early 18th century England. A good place to start is in chapter 29 & 30 of Wilbur’s 1925 book Our Unitarian Heritage, though his interests… Read More »Linkage: Isaac Newton on the Father and Son
Its purpose is to equip you to think through these disputed theological and biblical issues. Appropriately, it’s again available in Three formats.
Have you heard both sides of this disagreement? This short, readable debate book will help you to go deeper.
Does the NT teach that Jesus is a man, or that he is a godman?
Can it be easily shown that the Bible implies that God is tripersonal?
This series is extracted from a paper I delivered at the APA in Chicago last month. I’ve basically just cut up the paper into smaller chunks.
As we all know, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is three persons: the Father, Son, and Spirit. Further, two of these persons, the Son and the Spirit, are produced. According to both East and West, the Son is produced by the Father, but the East holds that the Spirit is also produced by the Father, while the West holds that the Spirit is produced by the Father and Son together. But that’s by the by. The point is that some of the divine persons are produced.
The question that interests me is this: how, exactly, does one divine person produce another? In this series, I want to look at two 4th century attempts to explain how the Father produces the Son: that of Arius, and that of Athanasius.
Read More »Arius and Athanasius, part 1 — How is the Son produced? (JT)
“Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Peter and John address the Jewish leadership.
An apostolic account of what is truly essential to the gospel.
What must you sign off on, to make the deal?
According to recent research, about 3 in 10 Americans are evangelical Christians. But what exactly is an evangelical?
I answer some questions and ask some, in response to this well done book review.
In this final part of our discussion Dr. Rauser and I continue to discuss his interesting new book: Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Rethinking Christian Attitudes toward Atheism.
In the last post, I classified Monophysitism, Chalcedonianism, and Nestorianism. All three of these must grapple with a basic philosophical issue, namely this: a complete indvidual human nature brings along with it everything required for being a discrete human person. Note that ‘individual human nature’ does not mean the humanity in the human in question (readers of scholastic philosophy are often tempted to think that).… Read More »Christology and Heresy 3 – The basic philosophical issue (JT)
The debate question is: Jesus is human and not divine.
Did Isaiah predict that someday God would become a baby?