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In this episode you’ll hear a complete, slightly modernized presentation of William Ellery Channing’s 1819 article “Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered.” In this piece he engages with “popular” objections, the kind current not so much with scholars as with ordinary people.
The objections he answers are that unitarian Christianity:
- Denies “the Divinity of Christ.”
- Takes away the only hope of sinners, an infinite atonement.
- Teaches salvation by works, not by grace.
- Preaches “morality.”
- Produces less zeal, seriousness, and piety than trinitarian forms of Christianity.
- Is “a half-way house to unbelief,” i.e. to the complete rejection of divine revelation.
- Gives a person no consolation in the face of sickness and death.
Does Channing effectively answer these? What are the common pew-level objections to today’s unitarian Christianity?
Links for this episode:
John 3:34; John 14:9; 2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:15; John 3:16; John 10:30; John 6:3; John 8:42; John 16:27; John 20:17; John 14:28; John 5:30; 1 John 5:7; 1 Timothy 3:16; Luke 1:69; Acts 28:28; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Isaiah 64:6; 1 Peter 3:4; John 7:46; Matthew 6:5-6; Matthew 6:16-17; Romans 6:11; Luke 23:36.
podcast 309 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 2
podcast 308 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 1
podcast 124 – a challenge to “Jesus is God” apologists
John Locke: Writings on Religion
podcast 55 – John Locke’s Second Vindication of his Reasonableness of Christianity
podcast 54 – John Edwards vs. John Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity
podcast 53 – John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity, Part 2
podcast 52 – John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity, Part 1
Joseph Priestley: list of his works
This week’s thinking music is “Slash and Burn” by Admiral Bob.
Thanks again for more Channing!
Does anyone have a recommendation for a new edition of the collected works, in a readable and bright format? My old copy – I mean, old – is worn out and yellowed, and the only paperback of the collected works has a font so small that even a young pup (I’m an old dog) could not read.
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