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From the Shema to the Homoousios: The Jewish Roots and New Testament Origins of the Nicene Creed

Posted on November 19, 2025 by robbowman

My paper, “From the Shema to the Homoousios: The Jewish Roots and New Testament Origins of the Nicene Creed,” has now been uploaded to my page on Academia.edu. Critics of the Nicene Creed routinely characterize it as a Hellenized distortion … Continue reading →

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Philo on Abraham’s Three Visitors: Evidence of a Pagan Origin of the Trinity?

Posted on October 31, 2025 by robbowman

This is a follow-up to my previous post, “Unitarians, William Inge, and the Platonism in Christianity.” Unitarian apologist Carlos Xavier, in the same post in which he quoted Inge out of context, also manages to quote the first-century Jewish philosopher … Continue reading →

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