{"id":5000,"date":"2017-06-13T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:36:12","slug":"the-lost-early-history-of-unitarian-christian-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-lost-early-history-of-unitarian-christian-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Early History of Unitarian Christian Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Hnlw4iMhE8\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I&#8217;m again working on some of these early catholic unitarians, I thought I&#8217;d re-post this talk I gave in May of 2013, at the Theological Conference in Atlanta. (<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/prezi.com\/vedkuky1m2wy\/?token=db89adf92b2c054cba41202d3e9a79546897f0dbbbadced4583efc21a0dd63c3&amp;utm_campaign=share&amp;utm_medium=copy\" target=\"_blank\">Here are the slides<\/a> if you want to click through them as you listen.) This was just before I started the podcast. The paper moves quickly through some <strong>big names of pre-Nicene catholic Christianity<\/strong>. I show that they were to a man <strong>unitarians<\/strong>, and not trinitarians, as many would prefer to believe. This has been pointed out in some detail before, in the <a title=\"the writings of John Biddle in The Faith of One God\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/us\/en\/shop\/stephen-nye\/the-faith-of-one-god\/paperback\/product-4074169.html\" target=\"_blank\">17th century<\/a>, in the <a title=\"Samuel Clarke's The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/samuel-clarke\/the-scripture-doctrine-of-the-trinity-and-related-writings\/paperback\/product-3787826.html\" target=\"_blank\">18th century<\/a>, and again in the <a title=\"Alvan Lamson's The Church of the First Three Centuries\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-church-first-three-centuries\/dp\/B007FHHIPQ\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380810930&amp;sr=8-8&amp;keywords=alvan+lamson+church+of+the+first+three\" target=\"_blank\">19th century<\/a>. On the whole, the trinitarian tradition prefers not to hear the detailed case for this. It raises too many uncomfortable questions. This is why they keep forgetting or covering up these facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since this talk I have continued to work in more depth on <strong>Tertullian, <\/strong>resulting in this <a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-11-tertullian-the-unitarian\/\">podcast<\/a> and this <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp.uibk.ac.at\/ojs2\/index.php\/EJPR\/article\/view\/1693\">published paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God willing, a revised version of this talk will be a chapter in a future book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many <strong>thanks<\/strong> to Sharon and Dan Gill for recording and editing this. See their<strong><a title=\"21st Century Reformation Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.21stcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 21st Century Reformation website<\/a><\/strong> for <em>many<\/em> helpful unitarian Christian resources. You can download the video or audio of this talk <a title=\"the same talk, on the 21st c. Reformation site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.21stcr.org\/multimedia-2013\/dt_lost%20_early_history_of_unitarian_christian_theology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many who are often spun as &#8220;proto-trinitarian&#8221; thought the one true God is the Father alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","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":[4,14,38,9,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-monotheism","category-philosophy","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","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=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42257,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/42257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}