Dec 14 2024 62 mins 17
At the start of this episode I have a very important announcement! Then you’ll hear day 2 – November 24, 2024 – of pastor Sean Finnegan and I fielding church history questions for New Zealand conference attendees.
Topics include: the only really trinitarian-sounding text in the New Testament (Matthew 28:19), the formation of the biblical canon, some ancient books which are not in any current-day Christian canon, books in the Catholic and Orthodox Bible but not in the Protestant ones, why some of these non-Protestant books can be useful for New Testament interpretation, the influences of Greek philosophy of catholic theologies, whether or not the idea of a tripersonal God is in pre-Christian pagan religions, the conservative nature of so-called fourth-century “Arianism” and where that name comes from, Arianism and Islam, how it came to be that “Arian” Christianity died out, present-day apologists’ demonstrably false claim that Christians have always been trinitarian and how we can know from the primary sources that this it is false,
Links for this episode:
Videos from the 2024 UK Internation UCA conference in Windsor
Sean Finnegan, “Is Matthew 28.19 a Forgery?”
The 39th Festal Letter of Athanasius (367 CE)
The Development of the Canon of the New Testament
McIntosh, ed. One God, Three Persons, Four Views: A Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Dialogue on the Doctrine of the Trinity
a scholarly article on the Ethiopian Canon(s)
How John 1 was intelligible in the first century
Dr. R.T. Mullins on “classical” (i.e. too Platonized) theism
Rowan Williams, Arius: Heresy and Tradition
Dale’s university lectures on Islam:
podcast 31 – Dr. William Hasker on the “Arian” Controversy
podcast 30 – The Council of Nicea
Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome
Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381
podcast 175 – Marcellus of Ancyra
podcast 5 – Anglicans Defending “Athanasius”
podcast 4 – Anglicans vs. “Athanasius”
podcast 3 – making Abelard cry
podcast 2 – the “Athanasian Creed”
podcast 12 – the Apostles’ Creed
