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

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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

Links for this episode:

podcast 362 – Dr. Andrew Hollingsworth on “mere” social trinitarianism and eternal relations of origin – Part 1

Dr. Andrew Hollingsworth @ Brewton-Parker College

Dr. Hollingsworth @ Academia.edu

Dr. Thomas McCall

Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Philosophical and Systematic Theologians on the Metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology (review)

Origen

Psalm 2:1-9; John 17:5; Exodus 3:14.

This week’s thinking music is “bluenotes” by airtone.