{"id":2734,"date":"2011-06-19T01:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2014-01-07T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:17:38","slug":"trinities-turns-5-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/trinities-turns-5-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"trinities turns 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2735\" style=\"border: 12px solid white;\" title=\"5th birthday card\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5th-birthday-card.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5th-birthday-card.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5th-birthday-card-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5th-birthday-card-90x126.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We had our first post here or 6 \/ 19 \/ 06 &#8211; over 350 posts ago!\u00a0Thus, <strong>we are 5<\/strong>. Ready for Kindergarden, evidently! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <strong>J.T. Paasch, Scott Williams, and Joseph Jedwab<\/strong> for their excellent posts!\u00a0And thanks to the many great\u00a0commenters\u00a0here; we&#8217;ve had some vigorous discussions, and only very rarely have things gotten a bit too &#8220;hot.&#8221; You folks are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>A few hastily chosen <strong>highlights<\/strong>, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some introductory posts on &#8220;The&#8221; Doctrine: <a title=\"The Doctrine Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/4\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a title=\"Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/5\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>, <a title=\"Part 3\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/8\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"5 part series on the Orthodox formulas\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=THE+ORTHODOX+FORMULAS+\" target=\"_blank\">Orthodox Formulas<\/a> (scroll down).<\/li>\n<li>Some thoughts on <a title=\"Heresy post\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/72\" target=\"_blank\">heresy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A long series on <a title=\"Richard series\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=De+Trinitate\" target=\"_blank\">Richard of St. Victor<\/a>, source of the social trinitarian arguments that there can&#8217;t be just one divine person.<\/li>\n<li>Some answers about <a title=\"reader question about modalism\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/237#more-237\" target=\"_blank\">modalism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Islam-Inspired Modalism\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=ISLAM-INSPIRED&amp;searchsubmit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Islam-Inspired<\/a> Modalism.<\/li>\n<li>Scott Williams&#8217;s posts on the theory of <a title=\"HOG posts\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=HOG\" target=\"_blank\">Henry of Ghent<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Judging a <a title=\"Burke-Bowman debate\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=SCORING+THE+BURKE+%E2%80%93+BOWMAN+DEBATE\" target=\"_blank\">debate <\/a>been evangelical apologist Rob Bowman (mysterian) and Christadelphian (humanitarian unitarian) Dave Burke.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a title=\"Trinity Monotheism series\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=%22TRINITY+MONOTHEISM+PART+%22\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Monotheism<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;social&#8221; \u00a0Trinity theory of J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig.<\/li>\n<li>Is God a <a title=\"Is God a self? series\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=Is+God+a+self%3F\" target=\"_blank\">self<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>A few exercises in, um, creative writing: <a title=\"A Gnome's Tale\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/1109\" target=\"_blank\">Gnomes<\/a>, some weird <a title=\"Fingerites vs. Schmingerites\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/433\" target=\"_blank\">sects<\/a>, <a title=\"Sophie story\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/336\" target=\"_blank\">confused <\/a>World Vision sponsorees, and <a title=\"Stalin\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/377\" target=\"_blank\">Stalin&#8217;s USSR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>J.T. Paasch on <a title=\"JT Paasch - series on Arius and Athanasius\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=ARIUS+AND+ATHANASIUS%2C+PART++JT\" target=\"_blank\">Arius and Athanasius<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah\u00a0<a title=\"Hutton post\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/86#more-86\" target=\"_blank\">Hutton <\/a>on Plato and the Trinity<\/li>\n<li>Randal Rauser puts a bullet behind the ear of the time-wasting <a title=\"Randal Rauser Rocks\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=Rahner%27s+Rule\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rahner&#8217;s Rule&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nothing new posts.\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=%22NOTHING+NEW+UNDER+THE+SUN+-+PART%22\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing new<\/a> under the sun.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Identity.\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/11\" target=\"_blank\">Identity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dealing with Apparent Contradictions series\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=DEALING+WITH+APPARENT+CONTRADICTIONS%3A+PART+\" target=\"_blank\">Dealing with Apparent Contradictions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, comments never close. What have I left out?<\/p>\n<p>What sorts of posts to you find the most useful?\u00a0<strong>What can we do to make trinities better?<\/strong> Shorter posts? More contributers? More frequent posts? More linkage? Fewer or more stupid pictures? \ud83d\ude42 More or less historical stuff?<\/p>\n<p>Please sound off in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our first post here or 6 \/ 19 \/ 06 &#8211; over 350 posts ago!\u00a0Thus, we are 5. Ready for Kindergarden, evidently! \ud83d\ude09 Many thanks to J.T. Paasch, Scott Williams, and Joseph Jedwab for their excellent posts!\u00a0And thanks to the many great\u00a0commenters\u00a0here; we&#8217;ve had some vigorous discussions, and only very rarely have things&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/trinities-turns-5-dale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">trinities turns 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}