{"id":44226,"date":"2023-06-07T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=44226"},"modified":"2023-06-07T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T02:02:17","slug":"new-published-paper-craigs-contradictory-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/new-published-paper-craigs-contradictory-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"new published paper: Craig’s Contradictory Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s the 20th anniversary of Moreland’s and Craig’s much-read Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview.<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>(For a trip down memory lane, you can check out a recent interview<\/a> for the Reasonable Faith Podcast. Part 2 here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Craig was the primary author of the chapters on Trinity and Incarnation<\/strong>. These have received a lot of attention, not always positive, at the popular level and among the apologetics community. But to my knowledge up till now those chapters have not been engaged<\/strong> with at length by analytic theologians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that changes this year. <\/strong>Dr. Craig and I, along with Dr. William Hasker<\/a>, and Dr. Beau Branson<\/a>, are currently writing a four views book on the Trinity which is being edited by our friend Dr. Chad McIntosh<\/a>. This, I believe, should be out by the end of 2023. There, Dr. Craig’s views on the Trinity will enjoy a stress test at the rest of our hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in a just-published article in TheoLogica <\/em>(free download here<\/a>) I give Craig’s unique, “Neo-Apollinarian” Incarnation theory a thorough evaluation<\/strong>. These thoughts of mine started with this podcast episode<\/a> (part 2<\/a>), and then I honed the arguments with the help of some good journal referees. I think the paper advances the ball on a couple of fronts, and there are a number of points here relevant to evaluating other sorts of two-natures speculations about the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract: William Lane Craig\u2019s \u201cNeo-Apollinarian\u201d christology aims to give us a model of Incarnation which seems not to imply any contradiction, and which fits well with the Bible and with at least the creed from the fourth ecumenical council. It is argued that the theory fails to achieve any of these goals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I look forward to Dr. Craig’s counter-arguments. In part two of his Reasonable Faith interview<\/a> with Dr. Moreland, he mentions that he is focusing on writing a multi-volume philosophically-informed systematic theology<\/strong>. He says there that he’s already written the portion on Trinity. Perhaps this new engagement<\/a> should help to fuel his section on Incarnation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has Dr. William Lane Craig put forward what is plausibly a biblical and possibly true two-natures theory about the Lord Jesus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44271,"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":[37,21,15,58,75,14,33,8,47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-creeds","category-divine-attributes","category-history","category-incarnation","category-linkage","category-papers","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226","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=44226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44274,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226\/revisions\/44274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}