{"id":42832,"date":"2020-11-02T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=42832"},"modified":"2020-11-02T22:18:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:18:56","slug":"podcast-308-channings-unitarian-christianity-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-308-channings-unitarian-christianity-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 308 &#8211; Channing&#8217;s &#8220;Unitarian Christianity&#8221; &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3122\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-42832-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities308.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities308.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities308.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\/trinities308.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=42832-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities308.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities308.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>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Allston-cr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42834\" width=\"408\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Allston-cr.jpg 737w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Allston-cr-450x351.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The famous Congregationalist minister <strong>William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)<\/strong> has been called &#8220;the apostle of unitarianism.&#8221; In this episode you&#8217;ll hear the first portion of Channing&#8217;s famous sermon given at the ordination service for Jared Sparks in Baltimore, Maryland in 1819. <strong>&#8220;Unitarian Christianity&#8221;<\/strong> is a sort of manifesto of early 19th century New England Unitarian Congregationalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In it, Channing explains their approach to <strong>interpreting Scripture<\/strong>, and rebuts the charge that they rely too much on human <strong>reason<\/strong>. Reason, he argues, is fallible, but is as indispensable in religion as in other areas of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then explains what unitarian Christians think the Bible teaches about <strong>the one God<\/strong> and his unique <strong>Son<\/strong>. He argues both from what the Bible says <em>and <\/em>from what it <em>doesn&#8217;t <\/em>say. He replies to the objection that Jesus is (arguably) <strong>called &#8220;God&#8221;<\/strong> a few times in the New Testament, and argues that trinitarian speculations <strong>confuse Christian worship<\/strong> and tend to transfer the honor due to the Father to the Son. And the scriptural portrayal of Jesus, he argues, is <em>not <\/em>what we&#8217;d expect if the first Christians believed that in Jesus there were both a divine nature and a human nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make this lecture-sermon comprehensible to 21st century people, I&#8217;ve slightly modernized it, changing the occasional word or phrase that has either changed meaning or fallen out of use in American English since 1819.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Ellery_Channing\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"William Ellery Channing (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">William Ellery Channing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/uuwestport.org\/unitarianchristianity\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Unitarian Christianity (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>Unitarian Christianity<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-191-wares-outline-of-the-testimony-of-scripture-against-the-trinity\/\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>podcast 191 \u2013 Ware\u2019s Outline of the Testimony of Scripture Against the Trinity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-189-the-unfinished-business-of-the-reformation\/\">podcast 189 \u2013 The unfinished business of the Reformation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 4 \u2013 Restraint and Implicit Faith (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/dealing-with-apparent-contradictions-part-4-restraint-and-implicit-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 4 \u2013 Restraint and Implicit Faith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"?Loyola: tradition trumps sense perceptio (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/quote-loyola-tradition-trumps-sense-perception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><\/a><a href=\"Loyola: tradition trumps sense perception\" class=\"ek-link\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/quote-loyola-tradition-trumps-sense-perception\/\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>Loyola: tradition trumps sense perception<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-285-does-the-bible-teach-that-god-is-a-trinity-cole-tuggy-dialogue-part-4\/\" class=\"ek-link\">podcast 285 \u2013 Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue \u2013 Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-284-does-the-bible-teach-that-god-is-a-trinity-cole-tuggy-dialogue-part-3\/\">podcast 284 \u2013 Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue \u2013 Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-283-does-the-bible-teach-that-god-is-a-trinity-cole-tuggy-dialogue-part-2\/\">podcast 283 \u2013 Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? Cole-Tuggy Dialogue \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-282-does-the-bible-teach-that-god-is-a-trinity-cole-tuggy-dialogue-part-1\/\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>podcast 282 \u2013 Does the Bible Teach that God is a Trinity? 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