{"id":5049,"date":"2013-10-28T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2018-12-10T23:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:10:35","slug":"podcast-11-tertullian-the-unitarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-11-tertullian-the-unitarian\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 11 \u2013 Tertullian the unitarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5829\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5049-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities011.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities011.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities011.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\/trinities011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=5049-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities011.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><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charles-Bridge-in-Prague-photo-by-Dale-Tuggy-IMG_3133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5050\" style=\"border: 11px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charles-Bridge-in-Prague-photo-by-Dale-Tuggy-IMG_3133-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bridge in Prague, photo by Dale Tuggy IMG_3133\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>This episode is <strong>a recording of my talk<\/strong> on September 20, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic, at the conference &#8220;<strong><a title=\"conference website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.analytic-theology.cz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analytical Theology: Faith, Knowledge and the Trinity<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Czech analytic theologians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.analytic-theology.cz\/our-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Czech hosts<\/a> were Roman Catholic philosophers, interested in both contemporary analytic philosophy and early modern Catholic scholastic philosophy. It was an excellent conference, and we all enjoyed our conversations, as well as seeing some of one of the world&#8217;s <a title=\"picasa gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107014330561335966849\/albums\/5927697269839084609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most beautiful<\/a> cities, and some surrounding countryside. Special thanks to Vlastimil, Luk\u00e1\u0161, and Petr and Daniel for their hospitality, papers, and conversations.<\/p>\n<p>My talk is called &#8220;<strong>Tertullian the unitarian<\/strong>&#8220;. Though he&#8217;s the first on record to use the Latin word <em>trinitas<\/em>, I show that he was in fact a sort of unitarian, a kind I have elsewhere called &#8220;subordinationist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a title=\"Tertullian the unitarian slides @ google docs\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1N1Ly4ihQAtIXMhiXIfqps8qFIC7Iw9uB3QANChZpgZs\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my conference slides<\/a>, in case you want to follow along.<\/p>\n<p>These ideas are relevant, of course, <a title=\"talk on 2nd and 3rd century unitarians\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/5000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far beyond Tertullian<\/a>. But here I want to set the record straight, because there&#8217;s a lot of mistaken stuff out there about Tertullian, in realms such as apologetics, church history, and the history of theology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp.uibk.ac.at\/ojs2\/index.php\/EJPR\/article\/view\/1693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Update: this paper has now been revised and published.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he&#8217;s the first on record to use the Latin word &#8220;trinitas,&#8221; he was in fact a sort of unitarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5050,"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":[4,14,38,47,9,57,7,13,3,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-monotheism","category-papers","category-philosophy","category-podcast","category-quotes","category-theologians","category-theories","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","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=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40831,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/40831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}