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Dale Tuggy

Should Christians Accept the Trinity? A Conversation with Dale Tuggy

August 6, 2022 by Randal

Should Christians accept the doctrine of the Trinity? Not according to philosopher Dale Tuggy. In this episode, Tuggy explains and defends his unitarian understanding of the doctrine of God. Check out Dale’s book What is the Trinity? https://amzn.to/3QFu4Pp (promoted link) ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, interview, theology, Trinity

Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Review

July 8, 2020 by Randal

Dale Tuggy and Christopher M. Date, Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Debate. Essential Christian Debates. Apollo, PA: Areopagus, 2020. As the old joke goes, after the Sunday school teacher asks, “Okay children, who left the cap off the glue?” the answer comes back in unison: “Jesus!” You get it, right? Jesus is always the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Chris Date, christology, Dale Tuggy, debate, incarnation, review, theology

Debriefing the Trinity Debate: A Conversation with Dale Tuggy

January 25, 2019 by Randal

Recently, one of the foremost defenders of unitarianism today, the analytic philosopher Dale Tuggy, squared off in a public debate with popular speaker, radio host, and author Michael Brown to debate the topic “Is the God of the Bible the Father Alone?” Tuggy defended unitarianism and Brown defended trinitarianism. I very much enjoyed this rigorous […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, debate, Michael Brown, Trinitarianism, Trinity, Unitarianism

What is Mere Christianity? Part 1: Dale Tuggy

October 9, 2018 by Randal

Get ten Christians in a room and ask them what book (other than the Bible) was most impactful for their Christian formation. I guarantee that at least one person (and probably more than one) will mention C.S. Lewis’ classic Mere Christianity. (Case in point: when I asked “What’s the most formative book you ever read?” on Twitter (and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, mere Christianity

What is the Trinity? A Review

September 2, 2017 by Randal

Dale Tuggy. What is the Trinity? Thinking About the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. CreateSpace, 2017, 142 pp. In one of his comedy sketches, Jim Gaffigan recalls an occasion when his young son said: “Look daddy! A silver stick!” Gaffigan replied, “Actually son, that’s an antenna!” Puzzled, the boy replied: “What’s an antenna?” After a moment, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, doctrine, reason, review, theology, Trinity, What is the Trinity?

On Rota’s Wager: Pascal and epistemic virtue

September 23, 2016 by Randal

Dale Tuggy always has great podcasts and his latest is no exception. (I said always, didn’t I?!) This week he has an interview with philosopher Michael Rota on the latter’s new book Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life. I suggest you listen to the whole forty minute interview … and of course read the book too. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Dale Tuggy, epistemology, Michael Rota, Pascal's wager, philosophy of religion

The Making of an Enemy? The Tuggy-Spiegel Interview on Atheism

September 23, 2015 by Randal

This week on the Trinities Podcast Dale Tuggy interviewed James Spiegel on his 2010 book The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief. Since my new book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? is one long rebuttal to folks like Spiegel, I listened to the interview with some interest. (You can read my earlier review […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Dale Tuggy, epistemology, interview, James Spiegel, podcast, Rebellion Thesis, sin, The Making of an Atheist

Still Talking Atheism on The Trinities Podcast

September 14, 2015 by Randal

Part 2 of my interview on Dale Tuggy’s Trinities Podcast. To comment on the episode you can also visit the Trinities website here.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Dale Tuggy, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Trinities

Talking Atheism on The Trinities Podcast

September 7, 2015 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Dale Tuggy, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Trinities

Animal Resurrection

June 6, 2015 by Randal

Philosopher Dale Tuggy of the “Trinities” podcast recently posted a two-part podcast interview with Trent Dougherty on the problem of evil and animal suffering. (Part 1; Part 2). The second podcast focuses on Dougherty’s recently published book The Problem of Animal Pain: A Theodicy For All Creatures Great And Small. In the book Dougherty argues […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: animal pain, Dale Tuggy, theodicy, Trent Dougherty

Are the orthodox better off than the heretical?

November 4, 2013 by Randal

In his intellectual biography Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton famously summed up the ironic conclusion of his wayward intellectual journey away from the church: “I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.” But things don’t always work out […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, epistemic virtue, heresy, orthodoxy, Trinity, Unitarianism

Should you call out Gouranga? One-time Christian philosopher Michael Sudduth thinks so

February 15, 2012 by Randal

A couple weeks ago I was checking in to “Trinities” (a great blog run by several very smart philosophers with good senses of humor) when I read an article by Dale Tuggy commenting on the conversion of Christian philosopher Michael Sudduth to … Hinduism, specifically Vaishnava Vedanta. What?!! I took Frank Beckwith’s conversion to Catholicism […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, incarnation, John Hick, Krishna, Michael Sudduth, Trinities, Vaishnava Vedanta

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