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Defending the Trinity Lecture Notes Now Online
This week I spoke at the Defend Conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. I had an unusually heavy schedule! I gave a plenary presentation on “The Trouble with the Trinity” followed by a five-part breakout series on “Defending the … Continue reading
Dale Tuggy and the Biblical Basis of the Trinity, Part 2: Is the Doctrine of the Trinity Incoherent?
In Part 1, I responded to Unitarian philosopher Dale Tuggy’s claim in a recent conference address that my biblical argument for the doctrine of the Trinity omitted essential elements of the doctrine. Here I will respond to his objection that … Continue reading
Dale Tuggy and the Biblical Basis of the Trinity, Part 1: Are Essential Elements Missing?
In Part VII of my eight-part series of articles entitled “The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity,” I offer the following concluding argument for the doctrine: A. All the elements of the doctrine are taught in Scripture. 1. … Continue reading
Jesus as God and Distinct from God: A Reply to Kegan Chandler
In his book The God of Jesus in Light of Christian Dogma, Kegan Chandler repeats Dale Tuggy’s critique of Richard Bauckham’s “divine identity Christology,” which is essentially that the idea is logically contradictory. As part of his critique, Chandler offers … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus and Christology, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged Dale Tuggy, Kegan Chandler, Richard Bauckham
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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part Two: Responding to Mormon Misrepresentations of the Trinity
In Part One of this response to LDS apologist Ronald Kimmons’s flow chart on the Trinity, I summarized his argument and replied to red herrings or misdirections included in that chart that are not germane to the issue of whether … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism, Trinity
Tagged analogies, heresy, incomprehensibility, Latter-day Saints, modalism, theological method
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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part One: Responding to Mormon Misdirection on the Trinity
Ronald Kimmons is a Latter-day Saint businessman with political ambitions, a self-described “digital marketing professional, linguist, and smartypants” who has also spent a lot of time answering questions on the popular Q&A website Quora. According to his Quora profile, Kimmons, … Continue reading
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and Christology, Mormonism, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged heresy, Latter-day Saints
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The Light Analogy, Theological Method, and the Doctrine of the Trinity
In 2010 I participated in a lengthy online written debate entitled “The Great Trinity Debate” with a Christadelphian named David Burke. I presented a defense of Trinitarianism and Burke defended Unitarianism (of the “Biblical Unitarian” variety). A few days after … Continue reading
Posted in Trinity
Tagged analogies, David Burke, Jaco Van Zyl, Robert Boylan, theological method, Unitarianism
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Does the Book of Revelation Teach that Christ Is an Angel?
In the course of discussing other ancient texts about ascents into or visions of heaven in her 2006 monograph on 2 Corinthians 12, Paula Gooder makes the surprising claim that the Book of Revelation identifies Christ as “an exalted angel.” She offers two arguments in support of this claim. Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Jesus and Christology, Trinity
Tagged angel Christology, Book of Revelation, triadic
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What’s in Your Christology? Comparing Trinitarian and Nontrinitarian Views of Jesus Christ
Jesus famously asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” (Mark 8:27). The answers people were considering at the time were generally variations on a single notion, which was that Jesus was some sort of prophetic figure. Today … Continue reading
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and Christology, Mormonism, Oneness, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged Christology, creed, John 1:1, John 1:14, Matthew 28:19
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