Transfigured

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, Maximus the Confessor, Photius, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Michael Servetus, Socinus, John Calvin and more.  

We also discuss contemporary theologians such as William Lane Craig, Dale Tuggy, Karl Rahner, Sir Anthony Buzzard, Chris Date, DC Williams, BB Warfield, William Hasker, Kallistos Ware, and others.  

Here are my previous two videos with Beau Branson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_tuLfkp4_Y&t=7137s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDxccZwy54E&t=5757s  

My previous conversation with Skylar McManus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI6wSGFGnZY&t=5s  

Here is Beau's Presentation on the Monarchy of the Father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfBoOZ7dzLY&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lc-vqRutOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KRf4kCB8vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3htRB-WjQsc  

Here is Dale's Response to Beau's Presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzyUDQmewdo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78T7Ns2RMxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1nPIRG4rw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMN9cBfWQAA  

Here is Beau and Skylar's joint response. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqFFYzbOePs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MViP3yN48FQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znGwYzY0vC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbesYL9d_o0

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 get pretty close. We specifically look at Matthew 24 and Revelation 4&5 as part of our conversation. We mention Paul Vanderklay and Luke Thompson and Jacob Faturechi whose channel you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/user/faturechi/videos

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 discuss David Bernard, William Lane Craig, Dale Tuggy, Thomas Morris, Tripp Parker, Edward Feser, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Ireneaus, Sabellius, Justin Martyr, James Arcadi, Brett Salkeld, Beau Branson, and more.

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 and Dale Tuggy recorded a live debate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35_uFjEbx8&t=1s  

Chris Date and I discuss the Trinity and the Incarnation. We also mention William Lane Craig, Dale Tuggy, Beau Branson, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Irenaeus of Lyon, Clement of Alexandria, and more.

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 Peterson, Paul Vanderklay, Herbert McCabe, Fr John Behr, David Bentley Hart, Beau Branson, Bret Salkheld, George McDonald, CS Lewis, and JRR Tolkein. Hope you enjoy.

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 of Nicea, Athanasius, Arian of Alexandria and more.   

The Book: https://books.google.com/books/about/Constantine_and_the_Divine_Mind.html?id=c8XLDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description  

Kegan on "Homoousios": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEvZjJr4dUU 

Kegan on Hermeticism and the Gospel of John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7auX3o9Z20

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 Pageau, Mary Kochan, Bertrand Russell, Henry Bergson, Thomas Aquinas, St Maximus the Confessor, John Scotus Eriugena, Plotinus, Beau Branson, Augustine, Khalil Andani, the Cappacodcian Fathers, Irenaeus of Lyon, Godel's incompleteness theorem, and much more.  

Here is JP's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzlvx0HHYiPOJTEOU399WA  

Here is JP's talk with Paul Vanderklay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6QmOWI2Ysw  And my favorite talk between JP, Mary, and John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQQQwPAcMY

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. You can learn more about his story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAHv6_LG_w  

Luke has been on the channel before. He grew up in the young, restless, and reformed circles but is now on the path to Eastern Orthodoxy. You can learn more about his story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSiCZLHkZXA  

Charlie is from Arkansas and grew up Southern Baptist being really involved with his church. He had a period of atheism and is now getting back into religion. He has his one youtube channel which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-Hga0OoEHlzSJgRNmr7Aw

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 particular traditions have never had such a dialogue publicly before and we find a lot we can agree on and understand about each other.  The central topic is who is Jesus? What is Jesus's connection to God? Can Jesus be worshiped? How do we talk about our worship or veneration of Jesus?   Some people mentioned are Photinus of Ancyra, Plotinus, Arius, Athanasius of Alexandria, Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, Avicenna, Aga Khan, Alvin Platinga, Kegan Chandler, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Augustine, and many others. Hope you enjoy.

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 even within Protestants, on this often contentious issue. We all talk about the sacramental nature of reality, Paul Vanderklay, Jonathan Pageau, Athanasius, the history of Unitarianism, adoptionism, and much more.