5.10 Kyle Claunch, David Schrock, & Stephen Wellum • Interview • ”Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God”

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Listen in as David Schrock & Stephen Wellum interview Kyle Claunch on his COA Longform Essay, "Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God"

Timestamps

• 00:35 – Intro
• 03:40 – How Did Dr. Claunch’s Interest for the Doctrine of God Begin to Grow?
• 07:25 – What Were Some of the Things Moving in Academia Towards a Retrieval of Classical Theism?
• 13:28 – Retrieving While Not Throwing out the Baby with the Bathwater
• 19:42 – Axiom 1: The Doctrine of Creation from Ex Nihilo
• 22:36 – How Important is the Order to the Axioms?
• 24:43 – Axioms 2&3: Supreme Goodness, Immanence & Negation
• 29:00 – The Perfections and Imperfections in Humanity in Creation
• 33:30 – Axiom 5 and Analogical Speech
• 37:57 – Wrong Ways of Analogical Speech Leads to Wrong Thinking on the Doctrine of God
• 42:11 – Axioms 6, 7, & 8: God’s Attributes
• 50:13 – What Attribute Is Hardest to Grasp for Students?
• 55:54 – Axioms 9 & 10: Our God is Triune
• 59:42 – God’s Attributes Only Make Sense With His Triune Nature
• 1:06:10 – Outro

 Resources to Click

• “Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God” – Kyle Claunch
• “God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood” – Kyle Claunch
• “Why are We Trinitarian, and Why Does it Matter?” – Kyle Claunch
• Theme of the Month: The God Who Is There: Contemplating the Doctrine of God
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 Books to Read

• Summa Theologiae (Vol. 1) – Thomas Aquinas
• Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology, 2nd ed. – Richard A. Muller
• Proslogion in Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works – ed. Brian Davies and G.R. Evans
• Institutes of Eclenctic Theology – Francis Turretin ed. James T. Dennison, Jr.
• Orations – Gregory of Nazianzus