podcast 363 – Dr. Andrew Hollingsworth on “mere” social trinitarianism and eternal relations of origin – Part 2

In this episode we get into the depths of Dr. Hollingsworth’s new article “Mere Social Trinitarianism, the Eternal Relations of Origin, and Models of God.”

Topics include:

divine timelessness
creation ex nihilo
the divine processions (the Father’s eternal generation of the Son and spiration of the Spirit)
the DERO’s lack of biblical support
why DERO entered into mainstream Christian tradition
divine aseity
John 1 and Philo’s views about God’s Logos
2nd century logos theorists
the “Cappadocian fathers” on DERO
Dr. Joshua Sijuwade‘s views on the processions
some reasons why it is problematic to combine divine temporality with DERO
Hasker vs. Mullins on processions and subordinationism
comparing and contrasting processions with creation
divine immutability
divine impassibility
divine simplicity
God’s desire to be reconciled to his creatures
God’s real relations to the cosmos
divine temporality
divine simplicity & some of its absurd implications
how simplicity implies the other “classical theism” divine attributes
whether a whole depends on its parts
how God can have multiple properties and not in any undesirable way depend on them
divine attributes which are compatible or incompatible with Social trinitarianism
that Social trinitarianism is committed to one model of God
so-called “classical theism” vs. neoclassical theism (a.k.a. “theistic personalism”)
why Dr. Hollingsworth believes in a Social trinitarian theology
Aquinas’s claim that Jesus’s divine and human natures engage in one “theandric act”
the influence of Platonism and Origen on mainstream catholic theologies in ancient times
the practice of employing what one considers to be the best philosophical theories in the service of theology
why a Protestant should not say that we can’t interpret the Bible without reliance on extrabiblical Christian traditions