“almost impossible to verbalize”?
Can “the doctrine of the Trinity” or “the deity of Christ,” as Dr. Craig understands them, be expressed in New Testament Greek?
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podcast 348 – Novatian’s On the Trinity – Part 2 – Two Thieves and Three Arguments
A very revealing collection of mid-third-century theological arguments.
Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 12 – Rational Reinterpretation and theologians
Most theologians, even ones who focus on the Trinity, seem completely uninformed about important work in philosophical theology.
Some clarifications for Dr. White
Dr. James White’s stated reasons for not debating me are based on misunderstanding.
SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – ROUND 6 Part 2 – Bowman
In his sixth and final installment of the debate, Bowman turns in his finest performance, making a number of interesting moves, and getting some glove on Burke. First, he tweaks his formula (here’s the previous version): The doctrine of the Trinity is biblical if and only if all of the following propositions are biblical teachings: One eternal uncreated being, the LORD God, alone created all… Read More »SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – ROUND 6 Part 2 – Bowman
Review of Thomas McCall’s Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism?
Review of Thomas McCall’s Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism?
some additional thoughts about my demon-puppet objection
Does my thought experiment offered as an objection to some Incarnation theories only show that a demon too could become a man?
Constitution Trinitarianism Part 4: pausing and revisiting some issues
“Come on, you tired little brain – don’t fail me now.” (No, I don’t really blog naked – serious thought requires having at least your underpants on.)
Joseph Jedwab does an excellent job (here, comments 3 & 4) pressing me for details, and taking a shot at defending the Brower and Rea theory. I wanted to chew a bit on some issues that Joseph and Ian raise before moving on, offering some corrections and other reflections. (And JT – I want to post your lengthy comment (the second one) as a guest post, so we can discuss the priority issue – email me if you object to this promotion. 
) Any bold type that appears in quotes here has been added by me.
To non-philosophical readers: I apologize for the over-long load of philosopher-lingo that follows. You may want to skip this one! Read More »Constitution Trinitarianism Part 4: pausing and revisiting some issues
Kimel’s review of What is the Trinity – Part 3
What Origen actually says vs. what trinitarians wish that he’d said.
“trinitarians,” trinitarians, and me
In the New Testament “God” is nearly always the Father. But what follows from that, exactly?
Help for James White on Identity
Sincere advice on how to move past a merely verbal defense of “the Trinity.”
Do we need identity?
Sommers questions the doctrine of ‘relationism’, i.e. the view that identity is a relation…
the apologetics blind-spot on numerical identity
Here’s part of a conversation I had recently with a guy in a Facebook group who when it comes to theology consumes almost only evangelical apologetics sources. I’m going to call him “Tim” here. The conversation illustrates a blind spot that I often run into, a blind spot which results from people who study apologetics being insufficiently trained in logic. All the non-theological points I… Read More »the apologetics blind-spot on numerical identity
podcast 329 – Dr. Joshua Sijuwade on divine identity
Is the idea of essence the key to understanding Bauckham’s christology of divine identity?
trinitarian or unitarian? 10 – Hippolytus on the identity of the one God
Incredibly, in 1551 they discovered an intact statue of Hippolytus (pictured here). This may exist because he was revered as a martyr shortly after his lifetime.
In the previous post, we saw that in his theology, the divine (but less divine than God) Logos came to exist from God a finite time ago, so that God could create the cosmos by means of him. On two counts, then, this makes him not a trinitarian – that the “persons” are neither co-equal nor equally divine. But is he a unitarian?
In the most important work we have from him, he says,
The first and only (one God), both Creator and Lord of all, had nothing coeval with Himself… Therefore this solitary and supreme Deity, by an exercise of reflection, brought forth the Logos first… Him alone He produced from existing things; for the Father Himself constituted existence, and the being born from Him was the cause of all things that are produced. The Logos was in the Father Himself, bearing the will of His progenitor, and not being unacquainted with the mind of the Father. For simultaneously with His procession from His Progenitor… He has, as a voice in Himself, the ideas conceived in the Father. …when the Father ordered the world to come into existence, the Logos one by one completed *each object of creation, thus pleasing God. …[God, via the Logos] formed the ruler of all [creation, i.e. Adam]… The Creator did not wish to make him a god, and failed in His aim; nor an angel… but a man. For if He had willed to make thee a god, He could have done so. Thou has the example of the Logos. Read More »trinitarian or unitarian? 10 – Hippolytus on the identity of the one God
podcast 374 – Book Session Identity Crisis – Part 3
Q & A time, forgiving sins, Cerberus, and some answers critiqued.
podcast 373 – Book Session Identity Crisis – Part 2
Is it true that most ancients lacked the concept of numerical identity?
podcast 372 – Book Session Identity Crisis – Part 1
Four authors summarize their views on the Trinity.