At the start of this episode I have a very important announcement! Then you’ll hear day 2 – November 24, 2024 – of pastor Sean Finnegan and I fielding church history questions for New Zealand conference attendees.

Topics include: the only really trinitarian-sounding text in the New Testament (Matthew 28:19), the formation of the biblical canon, some ancient books which are not in any current-day Christian canon, books in the Catholic and Orthodox Bible but not in the Protestant ones, why some of these non-Protestant books can be useful for New Testament interpretation, the influences of Greek philosophy of catholic theologies, whether or not the idea of a tripersonal God is in pre-Christian pagan religions, the conservative nature of so-called fourth-century “Arianism” and where that name comes from, Arianism and Islam, how it came to be that “Arian” Christianity died out, present-day apologists’ demonstrably false claim that Christians have always been trinitarian and how we can know from the primary sources that this it is false,

Links for this episode:

Videos from the 2024 UK Internation UCA conference in Windsor

Restitutio podcast

Sean Finnegan, “Is Matthew 28.19 a Forgery?”

The Shepherd of Hermas

1 Clement

Barnabas

The 39th Festal Letter of Athanasius (367 CE)

The Development of the Canon of the New Testament

The Apocrypha

The Muratorian Fragment

McIntosh, ed. One God, Three Persons, Four Views: A Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Dialogue on the Doctrine of the Trinity

Codex Vaticanus

Codex Sinaiaticus

a scholarly article on the Ethiopian Canon(s)

Sirach 24

Wisdom of Solomon 9

What John 1 Meant

How John 1 was intelligible in the first century

Dr. R.T. Mullins on “classical” (i.e. too Platonized) theism

Rowan Williams, Arius: Heresy and Tradition

Dale’s university lectures on Islam:

podcast 31 – Dr. William Hasker on the “Arian” Controversy

podcast 30 – The Council of Nicea

podcast 29 – Arius

Rubenstein, When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome

Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381

Clovis I

Emperor Justinian I

podcast 175 – Marcellus of Ancyra

Plotinus

podcast 5 – Anglicans Defending “Athanasius”

podcast 4 – Anglicans vs. “Athanasius”

podcast 3 – making Abelard cry

podcast 2 – the “Athanasian Creed”

Augustine

podcast 12 – the Apostles’ Creed

This week’s thinking music is “Red Dirt” by Mr. Smith.