podcast 313 – Weighing Channing Unitarianism
Which parts of Channing’s thought do and don’t hold up today?
podcast 311 – Channing’s “The Evidences of Revealed Religion”
Is it reasonable to believe in the reported miracles of early Christianity?
“trinitarians,” trinitarians, and me
In the New Testament “God” is nearly always the Father. But what follows from that, exactly?
“The Trinity” – Whatever it is, smart guys believe it.
“I do not know what the Christians mean, and am as much puzzled as you; but Father Verbiest is of that opinion.”
Revised version of “Trinity” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
I see trends in this analytic theology literature somewhat towards relative identity theories, and towards “metaphysical madness.”
podcast 310 – Channing’s “Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered”
Does unitarian Christianity “deny the Divinity of Christ,” preach “morality,” and teach salvation by works?
Martineau: What’s left after historical inquiry unravels “the Trinity”?
“The dissolution of a mythology is no less natural a process than its growth, and is indeed secured the moment we have discovered how it has grown…”
podcast 309 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 2
The anti-Calvinist side of early American unitarian Congregationalist Christianity.
podcast 308 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 1
A famous manifesto of unitarian Christianity from 1819
podcast 307 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 3
Dr. Michael Bird argues that in Mark, Jesus is “included in the identity” of God.
podcast 306 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 2
Does the Gospel According to Mark contain as hidden messages the deity of Christ and the Trinity?
podcast 305 – Two Readings of Mark – popular or esoteric? – Part 1
What sort of book is the gospel according to Mark, and what does it really claim about Jesus?
podcast 304 – The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith
A Wesleyan ministry tells new Christians about “The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith.”
podcast 303 – Rauser’s review of Is Jesus Human and not Divine?
I answer some questions and ask some, in response to this well done book review.
podcast 302 – The Stages of Trinitarian Commitment
I have gone through all six. Which stage are you at, and what is keeping you from moving to the next?
Did Jesus have faith in God?
“It’s stunning; there is nothing in the Bible that says Jesus had faith.”
the Son ain’t the Father, so the Son ain’t God
Why it is just as obviously a confusion to run together Jesus and God as it is to run together Jesus and the Father.