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We’ve heard quite a bit from the famous, learned, and eloquent early American unitarian preacher and author William Ellery Channing (1780-1842):
podcast 308 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 1
podcast 309 – Channing’s “Unitarian Christianity” – Part 2
podcast 310 – Channing’s “Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered”
podcast 311 – Channing’s “The Evidences of Revealed Religion”
podcast 312 – Channing’s “Likeness to God“
In this episode I offer some thoughts, positive and negative, about Channing’s understanding of Christianity, including a few topics which the above lecture-sermons did not really touch on. Topics include: the breadth of his definition of “unitarian Christian” views, his arguments that the Bible doesn’t teach any Trinity or Incarnation theory, what sort of Trinity theories he actually objects to, his assumptions of divine immutability and impassibility, his anti-Calvinism, his defense of belief in early Christian miracles, his opposition to “man-made creeds,” his opposition to “emotional” religion, and his individualism.
Finally, we hear an eyewitness testimony to his conduct and character towards the end of his life.
Links for this episode:
Exodus 7:10-12; Isaiah 11:6-9; Luke 24:32; Philippians 2:12
podcast 235 – The Case Against Preexistence
a reading of Philippians 2:5-11
podcast 298 – Andrews Norton on John 1
podcast 25 – Pastor Sean Finnegan on “the Holy Spirit” – Part 1
podcast 26 – Pastor Sean Finnegan on “the Holy Spirit” – Part 2
podcast 189 – The unfinished business of the Reformation (book chapter)
podcast 191 – Ware’s Outline of the Testimony of Scripture Against the Trinity
podcast 37 – Why did Jesus have to suffer?
podcast 196 – Noah Worcester on Atonement – Part 1
podcast 197 – Noah Worcester on Atonement – Part 2
No “Trinity Verse” – A Good Thing?
podcast 260 – How to Argue that the Bible is Trinitarian
podcast 143 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 1
podcast 144 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 2
Clarifying Catholic Christologies
Is Jesus Human and Not Divine?
The Life of William Ellery Channing, D.D.
Is there a God? Tuggy – Kershnar debate, Fredonia, April 2016
Why I’m Not A Buddhist – Dr. Dale Tuggy
Licona, Review of Bart Ehrman’s book Forged
This week’s thinking music is “Simplify” by Little Glass Men.
