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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:
Dr. Andrew Hollingsworth @ Brewton-Parker College
Dr. Hollingsworth @ Academia.edu
Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Philosophical and Systematic Theologians on the Metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology (review)
Psalm 2:1-9; John 17:5; Exodus 3:14.
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