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Twitter is my favorite social media site. I enjoy short social media posts, and series of short posts. It’s a good place for the opinionated to hold forth briefly. As they say, brevity is the soul of wit.
Recently I noticed an interesting and insightful thread, a series of tweets, on “the doctrine of the Trinity” by analytic theologian Dr. Steven Nemes. I thought, “This is worth a conversation!”
In this and the next episode, you’ll hear that conversation. Dr. Nemes and I do, in the course of our conversation, deviate from the subject of Trinity theories. In this episode you’ll also hear about the relationship between God and the cosmos, appeals to “mystery,” “the doctrine of the Trinity” as a shibboleth, claims that there is no good anology for the Trinity, why Dr. Nemes is not opposed to “the doctrine of the Trinity” but is opposed to its being mandatory, and his general approach to Christian theologies.
Links for this episode:
Dr. Nemes’s Tweet thread which inspired this and the next episode.
“Words of Life” with Dr. Steven Nemes @ YouTube
The Reluctant Theologian Episode 80: The Phenomenology of Scripture with Steven Nemes
William Vallicella, A Paradigm Theory of Existence: Onto-Theology Vindicated
podcast 84 – Dr. William Vallicella on Existence and God
podcast 83 – The Spiritual Journey of a Maverick Philosopher
Moltmann, The Crucified God
Ulrich Zwingli, a.k.a. Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531)
podcast 31 – Dr. William Hasker on the “Arian” Controversy
podcast 30 – The Council of Nicea
Augustine, On the Trinity (@SEP)
When and How in the History of Theology Did the Triune God Replace the Father as the Only True God?
Vladimir Latinovic, “Arius Conservativus? The Question of Arius’ Theological Belonging“
Mark Edwards, Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church
podcast 232 – Trinity Club Orientation
Robert Sokolowski, The God of Faith and Reason: Foundations of Christian Theology
Feser, “David Bentley Hart’s Post-Christian Pantheism“
podcast 349 – Craig-Tuggy dialogue on trinitarian vs. unitarian theologies
Peter van Inwagen and Michael Rea on the Trinity
Berengar of Tours, a.k.a. Berengarius Turonensis (d. 1088)
This week’s thinking music is “Jonah’s Message for New York” by Dr. Turtle.
Interesting podcast. Some thoughts. If what we can know ourselves is the criterion for truth, rather than authority, then many defining Christian doctrines go by the wayside–the Trinity, the nature of Christ, the divinely inspired Bible, the existence of angels, etc. And faith is reduced to speculation. Christianity is reduced to a kind of gnostic philosophy. What I see in the historically verified words of the God-man is him establishing a Church, and bequeathing it with his very authority to teach in his name. The New Testament is but a record of the Church wielding this authority. This authority is the ground of faith for the average believer. When the Church dogmatically defines doctrines which are beyond the scope of human reason like the Trinity, the nature of the incarnation, the canon of Scripture, and transubstantiation, I can have faith that those doctrines are true because, and only because, the Church speaks with the very authority of Christ.
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