podcast 296 – Assessing Craig’s “Trinity Monotheism” – with Dale Glover – Part 1

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Notoriously, Dr. William Lane Craig compares the Trinity to the mythical three-headed dog Cerberus from Greek mythology – shown here as Hercules is about to club him. (Or: club them?)

But that analogy is not really the heart of his model of the Trinity, which he calls “Trinity monotheism.”

On this theory, God is one “soul” which somehow supports three “centers of consciousness” by having three sets of mental and volitional faculties. This is called “Trinity monotheism” because on this theology, only the Trinity is divine in the way the one God is divine – none of the “Persons” is. Each person is “divine” in being a part of something which is literally and fully divine – God.

Canadian apologist Dale Glover, who is sympathetic to Craig’s Trinity theory, invited me on to his podcast to discuss the merits of Dr. Craig’s “Trinity monotheism.” In this first part of our conversation, I first describe some positive features of Craig’s work on the Trinity, and then I give a few biblical, historical, and philosophical objections to this unique theory.

Links for this episode:

• Real Seeker Ministries
• Assessing Trinity Monotheism- with Dr. Dale Tuggy (a Biblical Unitarian)
• Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
• “Trinity,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• What is the Trinity?
• podcast 260 – How to Argue that the Bible is Trinitarian
• The Standard Opening Move (of apologists on “the Trinity”)
• the evolution of my views on the Trinity
• podcast 57 – Richard Swinburne on the Trinity
• podcast 286 – Is the Trinity Essential? – Three Views
• Craig: how Nicene orthodoxy rules out the full deity of Christ
• podcast 126 – What is an evangelical? With Kermit Zarley
• Debate – Dr. Dale Tuggy vs. Chris Date “Is Jesus Human and not Divine?”
• Is Jesus Human and Not Divine?
• podcast 271 – Does your Trinity theory require relative identity?
• on believing what you don’t at all understand
• The Lost Early History of Unitarian Christian Theology
• podcast 11 – Tertullian the unitarian
• podcast 232 – Trinity Club Orientation
• my two bill eps
• podcast 252 – Fred Sanders on Seeing the Trinity in Scripture, and his Secret
• podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation
• podcast 248 – How Trinity theories conflict with the Bible
• The Tuggy-Brown debate: Dale’s opening statement
• This week’s thinking music is “Blue Sky Blues” by Kara Square.