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Jesus, God, and an inconsistent triad
Christians believe in God. And Christians believe in Jesus Christ. How should we think these two (?) relate to one another? Consider this following inconsistent triad: D: Jesus and God have differed....
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The Orthodox Formulas 1: The Council of Nicea (325)
Most conservative (and even, many not-too conservative) Christians belong to churches and/or denominations which affirm traditional language about the Trinity. In this series, I’m going to just put all...
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The Orthodox Formulas 2: The Council of Constantinople (381)
What is sometimes called the “Nicene Creed” and recited in churches is actually from this later council, which is a reaffirmation, interpretation, and elaboration of the Nicene Creed of 325. This...
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keep up with trinities on social media
Here’s a quick guide to including this blog and podcast in your social media life: Want to see links to new trinities posts on Facebook? Like the Trinities Community on Facebook. Or follow me. Better...
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Triads and Trinity: a mini-review
In 2007 I read Triads and Trinity, by the late Classicist and Egyptologist John Gwyn Griffiths, a book which tries to trace outside influences on the development of the Christian doctrine of the...
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Leonard Hodgson on “Subordinationism”
Anglican theologian Leonard Hodgson’s 1943 book The Doctrine of the Trinity is creative, insightful, and I think believed by no one. It posits what I call a “three self” theory, what others call a...
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Jesus: Not a Cheerleader
Saith the late Christian sage Dallas Willard: The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides – “as it is in the heavens.” That...
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a national confession
“That, sir, is what makes this country great.” I didn’t know what to say; a foreigner in this land, I didn’t want to come off as either stupid or disrespectful. They all seemed to think it was...
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Moses Stuart on Nicea
Moses Stuart (1780-1852) was a brilliant American Bible scholar and theologian, who has been called the father of exegetical studies in America. He wrote commentaries, debated a famous unitarian, and...
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Who was born on the first Christmas?
Who is this baby who is born to Joseph and Mary on the first Christmas? Where did he come from, and what sort of baby is he? The most popular Christian answers have been these: 1. God (i.e. the one...
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A few thoughts on generation and time
A reader emailed to ask me what I thought about the classic patristic doctrine of “eternal begetting.” When this reader objected to someone that any process of begetting must be temporal, with a...
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“trinitas” in Tertullian’s On Modesty (De Pudicitia)
The Greek trias, translatable as “triad” or (I think misleadingly) “Trinity,” had been used a few decades before. But the first known use of the Latin trinitas is by Tertullian, and we assume that he...
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David James on Trinity feuding
Every so often I revisit a little gem of a book from 1780, which encapsulates much from the trinitarian-unitarian debates in England c. 1689-1780. There were plenty of hotheads back then too, and yet...
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Jesus’s temptations and ours
Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. No one, when tempted, should say, “I am...
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Catholic Theologian Hans Küng on New Testament theology
Although there are so many triadic formulas in the New Testament, there is not a word anywhere in the New Testament about the ‘unity’ of these three highly different entities, a unity on the same...
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One-self Trinity theories
I used to call these sorts of Trinity theories “modalism.” I still think that is not a bad description, so long as you specify that it is not by definition heretical or wrong. But I now think...
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If Modalism about the Son were true, then…
I’ve been harping on modalism about the Son (thinking of the Son as a way God is) for a long time, even giving what I think is a convincing argument against it. Still, what if it is false? Why do I...
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Karl Rahner on the word “God” in the New Testament
20th century Roman Catholic theologian Karl Rahner’s essay “Theos in the New Testament,” published in Vol. I of his 1961 Theological Investigations, is like a short book, a dense treatise on biblical...
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What is the Trinity? Restitutio interview
At the Restitutio podcast pastor Sean Finnegan has released his interview of me about my recent book What is the Trinity? Interview 24: What Is the Trinity with Dale Tuggy. Not familiar with the...
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How Trinity theories conflict with the New Testament
Most Christians are (at least in theory, according to creeds and statements of faith promulgated by denominations) trinitarians, believers in a triune or tri-personal God, which they call the Trinity....
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