podcast 297 – Assessing Craig’s “Trinity Monotheism” – with Dale Glover – Part 2

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In this second part of my conversation with Canadian apologist Dale Glover, we continue to discuss Dr. Craig’s views on the Trinity. Mr. Glover is sympathetic to “Trinity monotheism,” but I am against it for biblical and philosophical reasons. Our topics include:

• Dr. Craig’s philosophical anti-unitarian argument (taken from Swinburne)
• progressive revelation and how this relates to Craig’s Trinity theory
• my argument that if we assert that Jesus is essentially omniscient, this would make him a liar – even if a lot of his knowledge is subconscious
• how “Trinity Monotheism” divides the divine attributes between the Trinity and the Persons, and its controversial assertion of property borrowing
• Dr. Craig’s claim that the “soul” which is God has three mental and volitional faculties sufficient for being a self – and yet that soul which is God is not a self
• how Craig’s theory differs from Constitution Trinitarianism
• how Craig’s theory requires the controversial claim that there are two ways to be divine: by being a god, and by being a part of a god – what Dr. Daniel Howard-Snyder calls the “diminished divinity problem”
• the clash between Christian traditions and Craig’s view that God is not a self/person, and how this relates to worship
• why I think there is strong evidence against the claim that the New Testament authors don’t believe in a triune God

Thanks to Dale Glover for a good conversation!

Links for this episode:

• Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
• Dr. Craig’s podcast Reasonable Faith
• podcast 230 – The Failure of Fashionable Antiunitarian Arguments
• podcast 248 – How Trinity theories conflict with the Bible
• One God Report podcast: Evolution of the Trinity, Interview with Dr. Dale Tuggy, part 1
• One God Report podcast: Evolution of the Trinity, Interview with Dr. Dale Tuggy, part 2
• Daniel Howard-Snyder
• “Trinity,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Eng and Chang
• the interesting sisters I mention
• Leftow’s one-self Trinity theory
• old trinities posts on “Trinity monotheism”
• Craig’s kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God
• the modal ontological argument for the existence of God
• Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32; Mark 14:32-42; Jude 1:3; John 17:1-3; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6;
• podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation
• podcast 271 – Does your Trinity theory require relative identity?
• “Constitution Trinitarianism: An Appraisal”
• Craig: how Nicene orthodoxy rules out the full deity of Christ
• podcast 286 – Is the Trinity Essential? – Three Views
• This week’s thinking music is “Polybear” by Little Glass Men.