Unitarian Christian Alliance | Dale Tuggy - Ten Arguments for Unitarian Inclusivism @UnitarianChristianAlliance | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 39 minutes ago.
In a 2023 Unitarian Christian Alliance paper presentation, Dale Tuggy offers ten arguments for "unitarian inclusivism". What is that you ask? Here's the opening to his paper as an introduction:
"In a talk this controversial, I must first say that I acknowledge and respect the fact that the Unitarian Christian Alliance takes no position on this matter, and that it includes Christians who agree and who disagree with with the position I will argue for."
"My next task is to carefully define the key terms. By a “trinitarian” I mean a person who identifies as a Christian and who fellowships with a trinitarian church, one which officially professes some version of the traditionally required Trinity language. Such a person may or may not have much understanding of what the doctrine of the Trinity is supposed to be (the norm is a very tenuous grasp), but he or she at least assumes it to be a central and essential part of Christian tradition."
"Unitarian Inclusivism is the view that God can and does save people in non-
unitarian Christian traditions, such as the common officially trinitarian ones, even people who have not disavowed any doctrine of the Trinity. In other words, being trinitarian in the above sense doesn’t disqualify one from being born again. Some will ask why this even needs to be argued for. The answer is that some of my unitarian brothers and sisters (OK, it’s mostly the brothers) are given to publicly asserting, or sometimes just insinuating, that trinitarians are idolaters, members of a false religion, or that they worship a false god, and so they are never real sharers in the new covenant through Jesus, heirs of God’s Kingdom, until such time as they repudiate trinitarianism."
"In this talk I will give ten brief arguments for 'unitarian inclusivism'. These arguments are mostly independent of one another, so if you reject a few, still, you ought to consider the rest as making a strong case for unitarian inclusivism."
In a 2023 Unitarian Christian Alliance paper presentation, Dale Tuggy offers ten arguments for "unitarian inclusivism". What is that you ask? Here's the opening to his paper as an introduction:
"In a talk this controversial, I must first say that I acknowledge and respect the fact that the Unitarian Christian Alliance takes no position on this matter, and that it includes Christians who agree and who disagree with with the position I will argue for."
"My next task is to carefully define the key terms. By a “trinitarian” I mean a person who identifies as a Christian and who fellowships with a trinitarian church, one which officially professes some version of the traditionally required Trinity language. Such a person may or may not have much understanding of what the doctrine of the Trinity is supposed to be (the norm is a very tenuous grasp), but he or she at least assumes it to be a central and essential part of Christian tradition."
"Unitarian Inclusivism is the view that God can and does save people in non-
unitarian Christian traditions, such as the common officially trinitarian ones, even people who have not disavowed any doctrine of the Trinity. In other words, being trinitarian in the above sense doesn’t disqualify one from being born again. Some will ask why this even needs to be argued for. The answer is that some of my unitarian brothers and sisters (OK, it’s mostly the brothers) are given to publicly asserting, or sometimes just insinuating, that trinitarians are idolaters, members of a false religion, or that they worship a false god, and so they are never real sharers in the new covenant through Jesus, heirs of God’s Kingdom, until such time as they repudiate trinitarianism."
"In this talk I will give ten brief arguments for 'unitarian inclusivism'. These arguments are mostly independent of one another, so if you reject a few, still, you ought to consider the rest as making a strong case for unitarian inclusivism."
