{"id":40707,"date":"2018-11-05T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40707"},"modified":"2018-11-05T19:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:52:34","slug":"podcast-242-dr-beau-branson-on-the-monarchy-of-the-father-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-242-dr-beau-branson-on-the-monarchy-of-the-father-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 242 \u2013 Dr. Beau Branson on the Monarchy of the Father \u2013 Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8415\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40707-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities242.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities242.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities242.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\/trinities242.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=40707-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities242.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities242.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>In this fourth and final part of his presentation on the Monarchy of the Father, Dr. Branson again presses what he claims are<strong> unresolvable problems for <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-239-dr-beau-branson-on-the-monarchy-of-the-father-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my definitions<\/a><\/strong> of the terms &#8220;trinitarian&#8221; and &#8220;unitarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also argues that I&#8217;ve painted myself into a corner by (in some sense) endorsing the views of <strong>Samuel Clarke<\/strong>, which Dr. Branson argues are substantially Eastern Orthodox views, or what Dr. Branson calls &#8220;monarchical trinitarianism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he ventures <strong>an argument against biblical unitarian<\/strong> theology. He argues that it either collapses into monarchical trinitarianism, or it can&#8217;t avoid the &#8220;wonky metaphysics&#8221; relied on by various &#8220;egalitarian&#8221; (Western, Catholic) understandings of the Trinity.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, I start to reply to his many objections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40709 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-3704428_1280-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ceiling of Orthodox church, Romania\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-3704428_1280-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-3704428_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-3704428_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-3704428_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-239-dr-beau-branson-on-the-monarchy-of-the-father-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-240-dr-beau-branson-on-the-monarchy-of-the-father-part-2\/\">Part 2,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-241-dr-beau-branson-on-the-monarchy-of-the-father-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaubranson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dr. Branson\u2019s homepage<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaubranson.com\/research\/\">Dr. Branson\u2019s slides with his unedited audio are posted here<\/a> (today\u2019s episode covers the end of his Part 4 and his Part 5).<\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Doctor_Turtle\/none_given_1561\/Clusticus_The_Mistaken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clusticus the Mistaken<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Doctor_Turtle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doctor Turtle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summary of Dr. Branson&#8217;s case and an argument against biblical unitarian theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40709,"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":[88,4,9,57,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-orthodoxy","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-philosophy","category-podcast","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40707","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=40707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40721,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40707\/revisions\/40721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}