Transfigured

This conversation continues our series of dialogues with Sam and Hank on the church fathers. This episode we talk about Tertullian of Carthage. We cover Tertullian's background, the history and relevance of the montanist movement, and Tertullian's views on trinitarian theology. We will likely have at least one more episode covering other areas of Tertullian's theology. Hope you enjoy.   ...

This is the third episode in Sam and Hank's series of dialogues on the Church Fathers. In this episode we discuss the 3 Apostolic Fathers: Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp of Smyrna. Sam is a Biblical Unitarian and Hank is a recent convert from evangelicalism to Roman Catholicism. We bring our different perspectives and background to this discussion to talk about the life, theolo...

Isaiah's podcast, Depends on How You Look at It: https://dependsonyou.buzzsprout.com/  Isaiah shares his amazing story of health, healing, miracles, and God's providence. He also talks about his theological exploration and development. We cover many subjects from eschatology, to dispensationalism, covenantalism, infant baptism, the eucharist, premillenialism, and soteriology.

Sean Finnegan is a pastor, podcaster, and scholar who has a very similar background to me. We talk about what it is like to grow up "in the shadow of the Way International" and make sense of it's mixed inheritance. Some of the names mentioned are E.W. Bullinger, B.J. Leonard, Anthony Buzzard, Vince Finnegan, and Victor Gluckin.   You can find Sean's podcast, "Restitutio" here: https://restitu...

This is the second episode of our monthly series where Sam and Hank discuss the church fathers. This episode is about Irenaeus of Lyon. He was the Bishop of Lyon in southern France but he had grown up in Smyrna. We discuss his biography, his importance in church history, his writings, his views on gnosticism, his Christology, and other facets of his theology. We also draw parallels and application...

Parker is a theology student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the host of "Parker's Pensees" youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbT... ​  I ask him about his theological background. We talk about the importance of the doctrine of the trinity to salvation, how a church defines itself and he shares with me his argument for the Trinity based on our knowledge of conce...

JP Marceau comes back for his second appearance on my channel. This conversation was spurred on by the recent conversation between Paul Vanderklay, John Vervaeke and JP regarding miracles and the logos. JP and I talk about that topic other how we can understand immanence, emergence, the logos together with a focus on Christ. We mention Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Keiji Nishitani, Plotinus, Bishop B...

Jonathan Stewart is a Deacon in The Apostolic Johannite Church in Montreal. The Apostolic Johannite Church is a modern day church in the gnostic and esoteric christian tradition. Jonathan also is the host of "Talk Gnosis" on the Gnostic Wisdom Network youtube channel.   We talk about the history and emergence of Christian Gnostic. It's connections to the orthodox Christian tradition, it'...

Dr. Chad McIntosh has a PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University. He has developed a model of social trinitarianism complimented by a deeper understanding of group personhood. I feel like his model is one of the best and most compelling articulations of social trinitarianism that many people could learn from.  He also challenges me with arguments against Biblical Unitarianism. We mention Dal...

Luke Thompson comes on my channel for his fourth appearance. We talk about how we agree and disagree on the trinity. We talk about Beau Branson, John Piper, Owen Barfield, Nathan Ormand, Neoplatonism, John Vervaeke, Paul Vanderklay, Jonathan Pageau, Richard Rohr, Jordan Peterson, Nathan Jacobs, Douglas Harding, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, Ross Douthat, Charles Taylor, Alisa Childers, Jacob Faturechi, J...

Jacob Faturechi is an orthodox Jew with very interesting and unique perspectives on Jesus and the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Jacob has a youtube channel where he teaches Hebrew interpretation of the Bible: https://www.youtube.com/user/faturechi/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid  Jacob and I have spent a lot of time conversing about these topic on Paul Vanderklay's dis...

Hank and Sam are starting a series of dialogues discussing the Early Church Fathers. The first Church Father that we are discussing in Justin Martyr. We talking about his life, his writings, his beliefs, church community, his faults, and what he means for Christians today. Hank Kruse is coming at this as a recent convert to Catholicism from Protestantism and Sam is coming at this from the perspect...

John Vervaeke is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Psychology at the University of Toronto. He has an excellent youtube channel and I would particularly recommend his series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis".   Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ  In this conversation we talk about what Neoplatoni...

Here is the introduction video that should be watched first: https://youtu.be/azSNgWEv6R0  Rivers o Feden is a self taught bible student who is very good at Greek. He has a very interesting interpretation of the prologue of gospel of John. In this conversation we do a in depth examination of his interpretation of the prologue and how that fits into the larger picture of the gospel. Rivers' in...

Rivers o Feden is a self taught bible student who is very good at Greek. He has a very interesting interpretation of the prologue of gospel of John. In this conversation we do a high level overview of his interpretation of the prologue and how that fits into the larger picture of the gospel. Rivers' interpretation is compatible with a Biblical Unitarian understanding of Jesus but it is different t...

Jake Brancatella is the host of The Muslim Metaphysician channel on youtube. Jake has an interesting story, he grew up catholic but later converted to Islam, partially over objections to the doctrine of the trinity. He has studied philosophy and knows a lot about different Christian doctrines of the trinity. We discuss his current Islamic views of Jesus and the other prophets, we discuss the diffe...

Dr. Dustin Smith is the host of the Biblical Unitarian Podcast. He is also an expert on the Book of Revelation also known as the Apocalypse of John. While most of the time people associate Revelation with eschatology, in this video we focus on what we can learn about Christology. We mostly set eschatology aside and cover Dustin's own personal story, his interest in the book, the background of the...

Dr. Richard Rubenstein is a Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University. He is the author of the excellent book "When Jesus Became God" about the Arian Controversy. In this conversation we cover both the details and higher level themes of the Arian controversy. We talk about Arius of Alexandria, Athanasius of Alexandria, the Emperors Constantine, Diocletian, Juli...

Dr. Madison Pierce is an Assistant Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She is an expert on the Letter to the Hebrews. We talk about the background of the letter, the theology of creation, the role of Jesus in creation, prosopological exegesis, soteriology, and of course, Melchizedek. Hope you enjoy!   You can find her book on Divine Discourse in the Epistle to t...

Dr. Lydia McGrew is an analytic philosopher who focuses on the reliability of testimony particularly as that applies to the gospels. She has written a book titled "The Mirror and the Mask: Liberating the Gospels from Literary Devices". We talk about the difference between a literary device model supported by Dr. Michael Licona and the historical reportage model supported by Dr. McGrew. As a statis...

Dr. James Arcadi is an Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has written a book about his Incarnational Model of the Eucharist which you can find here: https://www.amazon.com/Incarnational-Eucharist-Current-Issues-Theology/dp/1108425895   He is also a cohost of the Foreword Podcast from the faculty of TEDS which you can find here: h...

Sr Anthony Buzzard is one of the living leaders of Biblical Unitarianism. He has written many books and appeared in many debates and discussions. We talk about his upbringing and his theological journey.    You can find his ministry here: https://focusonthekingdom.org/ Here are some of his books: https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Trinity-Christianitys-Self-Inflicted-Wound/dp/1573093092/ref...

Dr. Jo-Ann Brant is the author of a wonderful commentary on the Gospel of John: https://www.amazon.com/John-Paideia-Commentaries-New-Testament/dp/080103454X   She has also written a book "Dialogue and Drama" about connections between Greek Drama and the style of the Gospel of John: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1565639073/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1   I heard about her from her ap...

Eric Seitz will be ordained as a Priest in the Catholic Church in just over a week. This will probably be the last recording of him as a Deacon.    Eric and I had a 3 way conversation with Jacob that you can find here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llk3r3T63uE   The letter wiki conversation I am having with Tripp and Eric you can find here: https://letter.wiki/conversation/679 &nb...

Beau Branson and Skylar McManus and I have a joint discussion about the definitions and borders between Unitarianism and Trinitarianism. We talk a lot about church history mentioning Justin Martyr, Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus of Lyon, Paul of Samosata, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Constantine, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesaria, Photinus, Augustine, Maximu...