Luke, Julian, and Sam do a debrief on the recent debate between Chris Date and Sam and Preston Sprinkle's "Theology in the Raw" podcast. Various people mentioned are Larry Hurtado, Jonathan Pageau, Alan Kreider's "The Patient Ferment of the Early Church", Jordan Peterson and his rules for good conversation, Paul Vanderklay as always, Jonathan Haidt, and Beau Branson. We discussion Biblical Unitarianism, Eastern Orthodoxy, The Jewish context of the emergence of Christianity, Monarchical Trinitari...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this conversation we discuss linguistic confusions relating to Christology, is God eternally and necessarily a Father, Dale Tuggy and his definition of Unitarianism, Chris Date and standard American Evangelical Trinitarianism, the specifics of the Arian Controversy, is the God of the Old Testament the Father or the Son, can God be seen, Two Powers in Heaven by Alan Segal, Richard Bauckham, Justin Martyr and the Dialogue with Trypho, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, Preston Sprinkle, Hegel, NT W...
Mar 31, 2021•2 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Luke returns for a second conversation. This time Sam and Luke discuss Philippians 2, The Christ Hymn. Sam presents a Biblical Unitarian interpretation of the passage and Luke gives his feedback from an Eastern Orthodox Monarchical Trinitarian perspective. This video in both in response to the debate between Dale Tuggy and Christ Date and in anticipation of an upcoming debate/discussion between Sam and Chris Date. Because this is Sam and Luke they don't always stay on topic and mention Dr. Prest...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Tripp in an AI researcher at Amazon and a friend I met through the Paul Vanderklay online community. He is an expert on Aristotelianism, Thomistic theology, and the philosophy of mind with a masters in philosophy from Duke. We talk about the doctrine of divine simplicity, how that relates to the doctrine of the trinity, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Ray Kurzweil, Alvin Plantinga, the evolutionary argument against naturalism, David Hume, Thomas Bayes, the argument against miracles, Adam Friended, Mi...
Mar 31, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Julian is a friend I met in the community around Paul VanderKlay. He is a Hutterite from Canada who has recently taken upon himself to learn more about the Trinity. We discuss the connection between belief and practice, trinitarian education, the historical connections between Hutterites and Unitarians, primitivism, Schleiermacher, Fred Sanders, Michael Reeves, Karl Barth, Jordan Peterson, evangelical identity, cardinal sins, Michael Polanyi, tacit belief, the difficulties of interpretation, Bar...
Mar 31, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Luke is a friend that I met through the online community associated with Paul Vanderklay. We have had a couple discussions at this point. In this talk we cover Trinitarianism, Biblical Unitarianism, creeds, western civilization, different types of belief, the connection between propositions and faith, the definition of a Christian, and other related topics. People mentioned are Paul Vanderklay, Mary Kochan, Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, Beau Branson, John Vervaeke, David Bentley Hart, Guy Se...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Dr. Beau Branson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brescia University with a PhD from Notre Dame. Much of his research has focused on the theology of the Trinity and the Eastern Greek Church Fathers. He has engaged with Dr. Dale Tuggy to demonstrate how a proper understanding of the Patristic doctrine of the Monarchy of the Father can solve many of the philosophical problems found in other trinity theories. The conversation ranges from Christian History, Jewish mysticism, Neoplatonism, ...
Mar 31, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
My conversation with Paul Vanderklay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuoqGzIu5Wc&t=1s Hello and welcome my youtube channel and podcast, "Transfigured". I am Sam, your host. If you've been watching on youtube already, you heard correctly, there is now a podcast version available on all your favorite platforms. Transfigured has been a youtube channel for over a year with about 30 conversations posted as of right now. These will be trickling out on the podcast over the next few weeks in additi...
Mar 31, 2021•4 min
