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trinities.org/blog/podcast-230-the-failure-of-fashionable-antiunitarian-arguments If God were only one Person would he fail to be “perfectly loving,” and so fail to be a perfect being, even though he’s supposed to be perfect?
Some have recently wielded arguments like this to try to show that any unitarian theology, Christian, Jewish, or Islamic, collapses into incoherence, or at least is less plausible than a theology on which God “is” more than one Person.
On the popular level, apologist and philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig has made this recent sort of antiunitarian argument in a book and online.
But the main source of such arguments in scholarly literature has been the leading Christian philosopher Richard Swinburne, now retired from Oxford University. He finds these arguments as far back as Augustine.
In this episode, you’ll hear my presentation at the southwestern meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, in which I summarize and criticize these sort of arguments by Craig and Swinburne.
I claim that Augustine simply doesn’t say what Swinburne attributes to him, and I think I show here that Craig’s version should not convince anyone, as it rests ultimately on an implausible and unsupported assertion.
But in this talk I don’t fully get to the bottom of Swinburne’s thinking on this topic. In the Q & A portion of my session, Swinburne himself weighs in with some responses. I’m still working on this topic, hoping to eventually have a publishable paper.
Links for this episode:
William Lane Craig
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, Second Edition
“A Formulation and Defense of the Doctrine of the Trinity”
“#166 Love and Justice in the Trinity“
“#509 The ‘Mind-Boggling’ Trinity“
“Is God Needy? Is God a Projection? Are God’s Attributes Contradictory?“
Richard Swinburne
The Christian God (kindle)
Is There a God?, 2nd ed. (kindle)
Was Jesus God? (kindle)
podcast 58 – We can’t prove the Trinity by reason alone
podcast 57 – Richard Swinburne on the Trinity
podcast 56 – Richard Swinburne on his life and work
“On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Person“
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary – Houston Campus
Joshua Farris
This week’s thinking music is “Hot Drop Potato” by Jesse Spillane.
Weekly podcast exploring views about the Trinity, and more generally about God and Jesus in Christian theology and philosophy. Debates, interviews, and historical and contemporary perspectives. Hosted by philosopher of religion / analytic theologian Dr. Dale Tuggy.
This week's thinking music is "Hot Drop Potato" by Jesse Spillane. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jesse_Spillane/The_Laundry_Cycle/Jesse_Spillane_-_The_Laundry_Cycle_-_02_Hot_Drop_Potato
trinities.org/blog/podcast-230-the-failure-of-fashionable-antiunitarian-arguments If God were only one Person would he fail to be “perfectly loving,” and so fail to be a perfect being, even though he’s supposed to be perfect?
Some have recently wielded arguments like this to try to show that any unitarian theology, Christian, Jewish, or Islamic, collapses into incoherence, or at least is less plausible than a theology on which God “is” more than one Person.
On the popular level, apologist and philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig has made this recent sort of antiunitarian argument in a book and online.
But the main source of such arguments in scholarly literature has been the leading Christian philosopher Richard Swinburne, now retired from Oxford University. He finds these arguments as far back as Augustine.
In this episode, you’ll hear my presentation at the southwestern meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, in which I summarize and criticize these sort of arguments by Craig and Swinburne.
I claim that Augustine simply doesn’t say what Swinburne attributes to him, and I think I show here that Craig’s version should not convince anyone, as it rests ultimately on an implausible and unsupported assertion.
But in this talk I don’t fully get to the bottom of Swinburne’s thinking on this topic. In the Q & A portion of my session, Swinburne himself weighs in with some responses. I’m still working on this topic, hoping to eventually have a publishable paper.
Links for this episode:
William Lane Craig
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, Second Edition
“A Formulation and Defense of the Doctrine of the Trinity”
“#166 Love and Justice in the Trinity“
“#509 The ‘Mind-Boggling’ Trinity“
“Is God Needy? Is God a Projection? Are God’s Attributes Contradictory?“
Richard Swinburne
The Christian God (kindle)
Is There a God?, 2nd ed. (kindle)
Was Jesus God? (kindle)
podcast 58 – We can’t prove the Trinity by reason alone
podcast 57 – Richard Swinburne on the Trinity
podcast 56 – Richard Swinburne on his life and work
“On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Person“
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary – Houston Campus
Joshua Farris
This week’s thinking music is “Hot Drop Potato” by Jesse Spillane.
Weekly podcast exploring views about the Trinity, and more generally about God and Jesus in Christian theology and philosophy. Debates, interviews, and historical and contemporary perspectives. Hosted by philosopher of religion / analytic theologian Dr. Dale Tuggy.
This week's thinking music is "Hot Drop Potato" by Jesse Spillane. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jesse_Spillane/The_Laundry_Cycle/Jesse_Spillane_-_The_Laundry_Cycle_-_02_Hot_Drop_Potato
