{"id":39203,"date":"2017-07-03T19:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=39203"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:48:38","slug":"podcast-189-the-unfinished-business-of-the-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-189-the-unfinished-business-of-the-reformation\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 189 &#8211; The unfinished business of the Reformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3296\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-39203-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities189.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities189.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities189.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities189.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=39203-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities189.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities189.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39205 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARTIN-LUTHER-NAILS-THESIS-1-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARTIN-LUTHER-NAILS-THESIS-1-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MARTIN-LUTHER-NAILS-THESIS-1.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> Are all or most of the authors of the New Testament <strong>trinitarians<\/strong>, or <strong>unitarians<\/strong>? Or are they just <strong>confused<\/strong> about whether the one God is the Trinity or the Father?<\/p>\n<p>This episode is my talk on May 26, 2017 at the University of Augsburg (in the state of Bavaria, Germany) at the conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kthf.uni-augsburg.de\/de\/prof_doz\/sys_theol\/marschler\/Forschung\/Thomas_Marschler\/Analytic_Theology\/Tagung-2017\/\"><em>Trinitarian Theology: Confirmation or Transformation of Classical Theism<\/em>? <em>(<b>Trinit\u00e4tstheologie als Revision des klassischen Theismus?<\/b>)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I argue that <strong>fifteen undeniable observations<\/strong> about the New Testament <strong>strongly confirm the unitarian hypothesis<\/strong> over its rivals. That is, these observations provide strong evidence that these authors assume that the one God is the Father alone.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>[spp-tweet tweet=&#8221;We know the authors of the New Testament were unitarians because&#8230;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Because you can see my slides, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=koogceUAG50\"><strong>YouTube version of this episode is recommended<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/44018047\/The_Unfinished_Business_of_the_Reformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Update: a revised version of this talk has now been published as this book chapter.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39214\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8957-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus in the Augsburg cathedral\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8957-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8957.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/analytic-theology\/\"><strong>The Nature of God Project<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kthf.uni-augsburg.de\/de\/prof_doz\/sys_theol\/marschler\/Forschung\/Thomas_Marschler\/Analytic_Theology\/Tagung-2017\/\"><em><b>Trinit\u00e4tstheologie als Revision des klassischen Theismus?<\/b><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kthf.uni-augsburg.de\/de\/prof_doz\/sys_theol\/marschler\/Forschung\/Thomas_Marschler\/\">Prof. DDr. Thomas Marschler<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-regensburg.de\/theologie\/philosophisch-theologische-propaedeutik\/personen\/prof-dr-dr-thomasschaertl-trendel-lehrstuhlinhaber\/index.html\">Prof. DDr. Thomas Sch\u00e4rtl<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-lost-early-history-of-unitarian-christian-theology\/\">The Lost Early History of Unitarian Christian Theology <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-11-tertullian-the-unitarian\/\">podcast 11 \u2013 Tertullian the unitarian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=trinitarian+or+unitarian%3F\">trinitarian or unitarian?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=hurtado+worship\">Dr. Larry Hurtado on the worship of Jesus in the New Testament<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=revelation+worship\">the worship of Jesus and his God in Revelation 4-5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/trinity\/unitarianism.html\">&#8220;Unitarianism&#8221; @ the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the NT authors assume that God is the Trinity, or the Father&#8230; or are they confused?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39205,"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":[21,14,9,57,77,76,3,43,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-history","category-philosophy","category-podcast","category-protestant","category-roman-catholicism","category-theories","category-unitarianism","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203","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=39203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43019,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39203\/revisions\/43019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}