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In this episode Dr. Bowman and I continue our discussion from last week, about some of the New Testament passages he discusses in his “Triadic New Testament Passages and the Doctrine of the Trinity.” Some of the questions we discuss are:
- Do some of these passages show, as Dr. Bowman says, that the various authors are “thinking about the divine” in a “threefold way“?
- Or are they largely what I describe here as “unity slogans” mentioning God, his Son, and his spirit/Spirit (and sometimes other things) as what all Christians have in common?
- And what about the God-Jesus-angels passages? What is going on there?
- How does this all relate to making theological sense of the Trinity (or trinity) in the New Testament?
As we recorded this a week later than the previous episode, I accidentally covered some passages again here, forgetting that I’d already brought them up last week. I’ve left this part in, as I think what was said complements what was said last time. Thanks for Dr. Bowman for being a good sport and addressing them twice!
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Links for this episode:
- Dr. Bowman’s blog The Religious Researcher
- Institute for Religious Research
- some debates and interviews by Dr. Bowman
- The Journal for Trinitarian Studies and Apologetics, January 2013 issue
- “Jesus Christ, God Manifest: Titus 2:13 Revisited“
- This week’s thinking music is “Scattered Knowledge” by Revolution Void.
I don’t agree with Dr. Bowman, spirit of his son in Galatians 4:6 somehow implies that Son has equal status with God the Father. For one, spirit need not be capitalized to mean Holy Spirit. It can just mean God sent the same spirit in which Jesus called God the Father, Abba to his new followers in Christ. Secondly, if it was indeed talking about Holy Spirit, it could also mean that the same Holy Spirit through which Jesus was conceived, or the same Holy Spirit that descended on Jesus at the time of his baptism.
Frustrated! This is the second Podcast that is defective. I runs part way into the first Scripture passage, Galatians, and it cycles back to the beginning. It has happened several times, and I gave up. This maybe an iTunes problem, but it is usually used by a defective file created by sketchy Podcast burners.
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