{"id":6081,"date":"2014-03-28T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2014-03-28T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:22:33","slug":"my-online-debate-was-tertullian-a-trinitarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/my-online-debate-was-tertullian-a-trinitarian\/","title":{"rendered":"my online debate: Was Tertullian a trinitarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6082\" alt=\"rocky-mr-t1\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rocky-mr-t1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rocky-mr-t1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rocky-mr-t1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rocky-mr-t1-90x59.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><strong>Tomorrow (Saturday, March 29) at 12:00 EST I&#8217;m <\/strong><a title=\"facebook page for the debate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/262790323876181\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>debating Roman Catholic apologist William Albrecht<\/strong> <\/a>on whether or not the important early Christian philosopher-theologian Tertullian (d. c. 225) was a trinitarian.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Albrecht is on the affirmative side; <strong>I&#8217;m on the negative side<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He should be well aware of <a title=\"podcast episode - Tertullian the unitarian\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/5049\" target=\"_blank\">what I&#8217;ll argue<\/a>. I think Tertullian&#8217;s language is confusing (to us), and his theology is strange, but it turns out, on close examination, to be a kind of<strong> <em>uni<\/em>tarian<\/strong> theology.<\/p>\n<p>Or so I argue. <a title=\"blog talk radio website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/healingxoutreach\/2014\/03\/29\/debate-dr-dale-tuggy-vs-william-albrecht-was-tertullian-a-trinitarian\" target=\"_blank\">You can <strong>tune in here <\/strong><\/a>. And towards the end of the debate, you can even call in a question. (<span class=\"skype_c2c_print_container\">1-347-934-0379<\/span><span class=\"skype_c2c_container\" dir=\"ltr\" tabindex=\"-1\" onmouseover=\"SkypeClick2Call.MenuInjectionHandler.showMenu(this, event)\" onmouseout=\"SkypeClick2Call.MenuInjectionHandler.hideMenu(event)\"><span class=\"skype_c2c_highlighting_inactive_common\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"skype_c2c_textarea_span\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skype_c2c_logo_img\" alt=\"\" src=\"resource:\/\/skype_ff_extension-at-jetpack\/skype_ff_extension\/data\/call_skype_logo.png\" \/><span class=\"skype_c2c_text_span\">1-347-934-0379<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"skype_c2c_menu_container\" id=\"skype_c2c_menu_container\" style=\"display: none;\" onmouseover=\"SkypeClick2Call.MenuInjectionHandler.showMenu(this, event)\" onmouseout=\"SkypeClick2Call.MenuInjectionHandler.hideMenu(event)\">\n<div class=\"skype_c2c_menu_click2call\"><a class=\"skype_c2c_menu_click2call_action\" id=\"skype_c2c_menu_click2call_action\"><\/a>Call<\/div>\n<div class=\"skype_c2c_menu_click2sms\"><a class=\"skype_c2c_menu_click2sms_action\" id=\"skype_c2c_menu_click2sms_action\"><\/a>Send SMS<\/div>\n<div class=\"skype_c2c_menu_add2skype\"><a class=\"skype_c2c_menu_add2skype_text\" id=\"skype_c2c_menu_add2skype_text\"><\/a>Add to Skype<\/div>\n<div class=\"skype_c2c_menu_toll_info\"><span class=\"skype_c2c_menu_toll_callcredit\">You&#8217;ll need Skype Credit<\/span><span class=\"skype_c2c_menu_toll_free\">Free via Skype<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (Saturday, March 29) at 12:00 EST I&#8217;m debating Roman Catholic apologist William Albrecht on whether or not the important early Christian philosopher-theologian Tertullian (d. c. 225) was a trinitarian. Mr. Albrecht is on the affirmative side; I&#8217;m on the negative side. He should be well aware of what I&#8217;ll argue. I think Tertullian&#8217;s language&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/my-online-debate-was-tertullian-a-trinitarian\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">my online debate: Was Tertullian a trinitarian?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6082,"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":[37,54,14,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-debates","category-history","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","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=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}