Trinity: Lectures

Trinitarianism

Michael Patton

From: http://www.bible.org

 

Session 1 – Introduction and Worldviews

Class Introduction

 

What is a worldview?

 

Seven basic worldviews, Part 1

 

Seven basic worldviews, Part 2

 

Seven basic worldviews, Part 3

 

Session 2 – The Knowability of God

Can finite humans understand the infinite God?

 

Is human language adequate to describe God?

 

Why do people object to the study of God’s existence? Part 1

 

Why do people object to the study of God’s existence? Part 2

 

Why do people object to the study of God’s existence? Part 3

 

Session 3 – The Existence of God

Can we prove that God exists?

 

What are the arguments against the existence of God?

 

What are the arguments for the existence of God? Part 1

 

What are the arguments for the existence of God? Part 2

 

Session 4 – Incommunicable Attributes of God, Part 1

What makes God, God?

 

How is simplicity an attribute of God?

 

How is the simplicity of God to be defined?

 

What are the objections to simplicity?

 

How is eternality an attribute of God?

 

Session 5 – Incommunicable Attributes of God, Part 2

How is immutability an attribute of God?

 

What are the objections to immutability?

 

How is omnipresence and attribute of God?

 

What is the doctrine of aseity?

 

Session 6 – The Communicable Attributes of God

How is omniscience an attribute of God?

 

How is omnipotence an attribute of God?

 

How is sovereignty an attribute of God?

 

Other communicable attributes of God?

 

An evaluation of Openess Theology?

 

Session 7 – Doctrine of the Trinity: Historical Development

How did the early church understand the Trinity?

 

What are the early Trinitarian heresies? Part 2

 

What is the importance of the ecumenical councils?

 

What are some of the difficulties in communicating the doctrine of the Trinity?

 

Session 8 – The Doctrine of the Trinity: Biblical Defense

Does the Bible teach the Trinity?

 

What does the Old Testament say about oneness?

 

What does the New Testament say about oneness?

 

Explicit teaching concerning the deity of Christ

 

Does Jesus ever claim to be God?

 

Explicit teaching concerning the deity of the Holy Spirit

 

Session 9 – Christology: The Humanity of Christ in History

How did the early Church understand the humanity of Christ?

 

What is Apollinarianism?

 

What is Nestorianism?

 

What is Monophysitism?

 

How did the Council of Chalcedon affect Christology?

 

What are the different interpretations of Chalcedon?

 

Session 10 – Christology: The Humanity of Christ in the Scriptures

What do the Scriptures say about the humanity of Christ?

 

Why was Christ born of a virgin?

 

What does it mean that Christ “emptied Himself”?

 

Was Christ able to sin?