{"id":3885,"date":"2012-05-22T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2014-09-11T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:28:52","slug":"trinitarian-unitarian-debates-1-bosserman-vs-finnegan-2008-part-1-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/trinitarian-unitarian-debates-1-bosserman-vs-finnegan-2008-part-1-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinitarian-Unitarian Debates – 1 Bosserman vs. Finnegan, 2008 – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sean Finnegan<\/strong> is an intelligent and well spoken “Biblical Unitarian” Christian. He recently earned an M.A. in Church History from Boston University. He runs the\u00a0christianmonotheism<\/a> website, which aggregates work by contemporary Christian unitarians. I was pleased to meet him at a recent conference, at which he gave a fascinating presentation on how many (but not all) “church fathers” rejected the everlasting earthly Kingdom in favor of “going to heaven,” i.e. a non-bodily afterlife.<\/p>\n

Here’s a blog post by Sean<\/a> on the debate I’ll be reviewing below.<\/p>\n

Brent Bosserman<\/strong> was at the time of the debate an adjunct professor at Northwest University in Washington state. I believe he’s still there, but can’t find out much about him online. But here’s a long 2007 talk of his, called “Christianity and Trinitarian Worldview<\/a>.” He talks at the start about his background.<\/p>\n

This debate suffers by not having a precisely defined debate question<\/strong>. While Finnegan mostly sticks to the biblical case for his view and against Bosserman’s, Bosserman pulls out a broad brush and tries to compare all-encompassing “worldviews.” This is not a good idea; a debate is finite in time!<\/p>\n

The intros are over-long and intrusive here; I’ve skipped you to the actual start. My summaries and commentary follow.<\/p>\n