In this episode you’ll hear the four opening speeches in a book session at the Evangelical Philosophical Society conference in San Antonio, Texas in November of 2023. The book is One God, Three Persons, Four Views, edited by Chad McIntosh, forthcoming probably deep into 2024. (See UCA podcast #77 for the back story about the book.)
The speakers are the co-authors William Hasker (his paper presented by Dr. McIntosh), Beau Branson, William Lane Craig, and Dale Tuggy. Each one is supposed to explain what is distinctive about his approach to the Trinity. Dr. Hasker presents the basics of his three-self theory, focusing on his claim that the “Persons” really are “centers of consciousness” (selves). Dr. Branson explains his “Monarchical Trinitarianism,” focusing on a number of linguistic distinctions, such as different meanings of “god.” Dr. Craig briefly explains what he claims is a minimal and biblical Trinity theory and what he claims is an unproblematic model of the doctrine of the Trinity amounts to. He also urges that I have failed to rebut his case that Jesus “is God” (i.e. not identical with God, but rather that he has divine-Person divinity, as opposed to god-divinity). Finally, I present my unitarian Christian view, focusing on five of my twenty facts which favor the thesis that the New Testament authors are unitarian over the thesis that those authors are trinitarian.
I provide an opinionated running commentary on the presentations . . . and a few sound effects.
Next time: interactions between the four panelists, and some extra information about Craig’s claim that the New Testament authors had no concept (or no clear grasp of the concept) of identity, which is how he hopes to refute any understanding of New Testament theology on which the one God and the Father are one and the same.
Links for this episode:
Tim Stratton and Free Thinking Ministries
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podcast 28 – Interview with Dr. William Hasker about his Metaphysics and the Tripersonal God – Part 2
podcast 27 – Interview with Dr. William Hasker about his Metaphysics and the Tripersonal God – Part 1
podcast 78 – Mr. Chad McIntosh on the Trinity as a Functional Person
God as a functional Person
Kapusta, Scripturae Contra Trinitatem – The Epistle to the Hebrews: An Anthology of Quotations, Alternative Expositions, and Critical Commentaries on Common Trinitarian Proof-Texts
podcast 351 – Thoughts on my Dialogue with Craig on the Trinity and the Bible – Part 2
podcast 350 – Thoughts on my Dialogue with Craig on the Trinity and the Bible – Part 1
podcast 349 – Craig-Tuggy dialogue on trinitarian vs. unitarian theologies
Mahaparinibbana Sutta
podcast 246 – Response to Branson Part 4 – the shortcomings of “monarchical trinitarianism”
podcast 245 – Response to Branson Part 3 – Dueling Definitions
podcast 244 – Response to Branson Part 2 – Early Orthodox Trinitarians
podcast 243 – Response to Branson Part 1 – The Orthodox Doctrine of the Trinity
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podcast 280 – Have yourself an Incarnation-free Christmas
podcast 279 – Response to Burgos on Creation and the one God vs. the one Lord – Part 2
podcast 149 – Dr. Larry Hurtado’s Destroyer of the gods – Part 1
podcast 100 – Dr. Larry Hurtado on God in New Testament Theology
podcast 99 – Dr. Larry Hurtado on early high christology
podcast 278 – Response to Burgos on Creation and the one God vs. the one Lord – Part 1
podcast 277 – Was Christ tempted in every way?
podcast 276 – How is the Trinity Central to the Gospel? Or: How The Gospel Coalition Prioritizes Speculation over Scripture
podcast 275 – Exposing Dr. Heiser to actual biblical unitarian thought
podcast 274 – McManus on Oneness Pentecostal Christology
podcast 273 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology – Part 2
podcast 272 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology – Part 1
podcast 271 – Does your Trinity theory require relative identity?
podcast 270 – Origen’s “one God”
podcast 269 – Why debate theology?
podcast 268 – Another look at Philippians 2 with Dr. Dustin Smith
podcast 267 – Andrew Davis on church history, the Trinity, and modalism – Part 2
podcast 266 – Andrew Davis on church history, the Trinity, and modalism – Part 1
podcast 265 – What apologists don’t understand about the terms “being” and “Person”
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