The contemplative home of Skylar D. McManus
There are a lot of views out there about the Father and Jesus Christ. Trinitarians claim that the Father and Jesus are both truly divine Persons. Others deny this and say that the Father is the only truly divine Person. To say that the Father is the only truly divine Person commits one to either… Continue reading An Inconsistent Triad about the Father and Jesus
In a recent post I summarized a view of the Trinity that Dr. Beau Branson calls "Monarchical Trinitarianism" (hereafter, MT). The view is "Trinitarian" because it accepts that there are three fully and equally divine Persons. And the view is "Monarchical" because it accepts that the Father alone is numerically identical to God. I also… Continue reading William Lane Craig and the Monarchy of the Father (Part 1)
Recently I encountered a presentation that made me shed my Western Christian eyes. It was given by Beau Branson (freely available at his website) on what he calls the “neglected” doctrine of the “monarchy of the Father.” In this post I will summarize some key points of his five-part presentation. While I will cover a… Continue reading Beau Branson on the “Neglected” Monarchy of the Father
Every day I attempt to live my life as Jesus would live it, but I mostly fail. To attempt to live like Jesus would is to learn how to love Christ and everything that is represented in, by, and through him. Yet what I just said can sound stationary: to love, to learn, to live.… Continue reading Loving, Learning, and Living (Part 1)
Let them ask what it means, and be glad to ask: but they may content themselves with the question alone. For it is better for them to find you and leave the question unanswered than to find the answer without finding you. —Augustine, Confessions 1.6 (Penguin Classics)
Today I launch my personal website and blog devoted to sharing my research and my ideas on various topics that I am interested in. The idea for this website stems mostly from the fact that I tend, at times, to get verbose about ideas on social media. In particular, I've found that there's an amicable and… Continue reading Hello, World!
