by Kevin Bauder | Jan 27, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
What we call “the doctrine of the Trinity” is, I suggest, a formal set of conceptualities developed like this: a set of conceptualities that finally allowed (or at least was believed to allow) every text to be read adequately. As such, it is not a “biblical doctrine”...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
[T]he pro-Nicene theologians quickly developed what we might call a “two-state hermeneutic.” Their description tended to draw on the language of Philippians 2 to insist that some texts spoke of the Son in the form of God, while others spoke of him in the form of a...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
Somehow, right at the beginning of the church, the exclusive loyalty and worship demanded by God alone in the Old Testament was assumed to be upheld and not violated by worship offered to Jesus. For all the diversity we can discover in early Christian communities —...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | Christology, Evangelicalism, Reports, Theological News, Theology, Trinitarianism
I wasn’t at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society this year. By all accounts, though, the debate about the Trinity was a highlight. Defending “eternal functional subordination” were Wayne Grudem and Bruce Ware. Denying it was...
by Brett Williams | Nov 21, 2016 | Theology, Trinitarianism, Uncategorized
Epistemologist Kegan Shaw, from the University of Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/kegan-shaw), presented a paper challenging the Ability Constraint on Knowledge Syllogism. The syllogism is as follows: If you know that p then you truly believe that p on account...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 28, 2016 | Evangelicalism, Theology, Trinitarianism
Kevin DeYoung contributes to the discussion in behalf of The Gospel Coalition.
