Truths From The Text

Book Recommendations on Beginner Metaphysics:

1. Man's Knowledge of Reality: An Introduction to Thomistic Epistemology by Frederick D Wilhelmsen https://a.co/d/c1wP9UZ

2. The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by W. Norris Clarke https://a.co/d/d61BFWo

3. An Elementary Christian Metaphysics by Joseph Owens https://a.co/d/aLjL6Dc

For more on Filioque see St. Thomas here: https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~QDePot.Q10.A4

In this episode we introduce the unique names for the trinitarian persons, and then field some of the more controversial questions regarding "Whether the Son is autotheos?" And the eternal subordination debate.

You can find the audio from our Centralia Theology Conference at the link here: https://subsplash.com/christcovenantchurch-wa/media/ms/+h44crt3

For further study, consult the following sections in St. Thomas:

https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.I.Q28

https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~CT.BookI.C50

We continue our introduction to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Ryan reminds us of some of the basics of divine naming, and the important of first treating "father," "son," and "holy spirit" as predicates before proceeding to use them as proper or personal names.

Key Takeaways:

1. In God, all are one except where relation of opposition intervenes.

2. Relations make the Trinity.

3. Relations are a certain "towardness."

4. The father is toward the son. The son is toward the father. The father and son are together toward the holy spirit, and the holy spirit is toward the father and the son.

5. These four relations in God are called: Paternity, Filiation, Active Spiration (from father and son as one principle) and Passive Spiration (the holy spirit as proceeding from father and son).

In this episode we begin a new series on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. We focus especially on how we come to know that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in contrast to how we might come to know other truths about God (that He exists, is incorporeal, etc.).

In this episode we review and explore some of the more challenging aspects of saying relative names of God.