October 20th, 2008 by Phil Gons
I commented briefly in the second half of this post on why I think that the McCall–Yandell argument fails. (To get up to speed on what that argument is, see my two previous posts here and here.) A couple of days ago I stumbled across a quote in John Feinberg’s No One Like Him that [...]
October 9th, 2008 by Phil Gons
In tonight’s debate, McCall and Yandell tried to make the case that the eternal subordination of the Son to the Father entails a denial of homoousion.
The Argument
Here’s their argument:
If the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father in all possible worlds, then the Son is necessarily subordinate to the Father.
If the Son is necessarily subordinate [...]
October 9th, 2008 by Phil Gons
My good friend Andy Naselli is sitting on the front row watching and live blogging the debate. He asked me if I wanted to ask a question, so I sent this:
If the Son is necessarily the Son and the Father is necessarily not the Son, then the Son is essentially the Son and the Father is [...]
October 9th, 2008 by Phil Gons
I mentioned the debate between Ware–Grudem and McCall–Yandell a while back. The subject of the debate is “Do relations of authority and submission exist eternally among the Persons of the Godhead?” I’m currently watching the debate live right now. You can tune in as well.
I don’t know if I’ll liveblog. We’ll see. But I probably will [...]
August 7th, 2008 by Phil Gons
A few weeks ago, a friend informed me of this upcoming debate between Bruce Ware & Wayne Grudem and Tom McCall & Keith Yandell. It’s very relevant to my dissertation topic, so I’m looking forward to hearing the results. Hopefully audio and transcripts will be made available.
I read a paper from Tom McCall several months [...]