Transfigured

Charlie has his own channel called Thought Journey that you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-Hga0OoEHlzSJgRNmr7Aw   Charlie was raised Southern Baptist with a brief stint in Oneness Pentecostalism. He has an MDiv from Dallas Theological Seminary. He preaches at his church in Arkansas. We try and see if we can agree on who Jesus is and how he relates to God. It sounds like we...

Skylar McManus is training in analytic theology and philosophy. You can find his blog where he discusses theology and the trinity here: https://skylarmcmanus.com/   Skylar discusses his interesting background of growing up Oneness Pentecostal, diving into apologetics and philosophy, and moving towards Eastern Orthodoxy while exploring the full landscape of Christology along the way. We discus...

Chris Date recently published a book with Dale Tuggy that you can find here: https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Human-Not-Divine-Essential-ebook/dp/B087X7VWKJ/?fbclid=IwAR3LHQv3J2xTvhXd3NPhFNeRPplEdbngdGWXunHGpBKbRV_5QvBjXSLou3Y   Chris Date and I also had a first conversation on Preston Sprinkle's 'Theology in the Raw podcast': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a7tsC_6T80&t=2s   Chris Date...

Shari lives on a self-sustaining farm in British Columbia. You can see her tell her story with Paul Vanderklay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDJjVbG3mk   We talk about a journey into the church fathers and seeing theology through their lenses. We talk about Origen of Alexandria, Athanasius, Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor. We also talk about modern day influences like Jordan...

Kegan Chandler has a Masters in Theology and is an amazing self-taught scholar, historian, theologian and fellow Biblical Unitarian. He has written a new book about the Theological beliefs and motivations of Constantine the Great. We talked about his conversation, Pagan Monotheism, Sol Invictus, Lucius Lactantius, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Augustine of Hippo, Eusebius (both of them), the Council...

JP Marceau is a friend I met through the Paul Vanderklay community. He has a background in philosophy with interests in the patristic period of the church fathers, neoplatonism, and Thomism. He combines these old ideas with new philosophical schools of thought like panpsychism and process theology.    We have an interesting discussion covering many people like John Vervaeke, Jonathan Pag...

This is a casual 4-way conversation between friends. None of us are professional theologians but we are all very interested in the topics of Unitarians vs Trinitarianism and Universalism vs Annihilationism vs Eternal Conscious Torment.    Jeff has a background in various forms of conservative evangelicalism growing up in Texas. He also is a CS Lewis and George McDonald quote encyclopedia...

Dr. Khalil Andani is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Augustana College and a recent PhD graduate from Harvard University. Dr. Andani is a member of the Nizari branch of Ismaili Shi'i Islam. He invited me to have a dialogue with him about my views on Jesus as a Biblical Unitarian Christian for his class "Global Christians: Christian-Muslim Encounters". As far as either of us are aware our par...

Brett Salkeld is a Catholic Theologian and author of a new book on Transubstantiation. He explores the often misunderstood Thomistic doctrine of transubstantiation and how that relates to the eucharistic theologies of Martin Luther and John Calvin. His bold proposals suggest that a better understanding of Thomas Aquinas can actually help lead to greater unity between Catholics and Protestants, and...

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 Unitari...

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, Just...

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 Sa...

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 evol...

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, evangel...

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, Ma...

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 othe...

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 co...