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Arianism: Past and Present – Dr. Carl Beckwith, 10/24/25 (2972)

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dr. Carl Beckwith of Concordia Theological Seminary-Fort Wayne, IN

The Holy Trinity

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How has a liturgical change in Roman Catholicism resulted in the altering of Catholicism's teaching on creation?

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Pastor Will Whedon has written a column for the latest issues that said are a journal titled Lexorandi on creation.

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We'll send it to you for free. Just click the red journal subscription button on the right-hand column at issue ZTC.org.

0:20.8

In the Wittenberg Trail feature, former Baptist pastor, Javier Perdomo,

0:24.5

writes about finding the historic sacramental church in confessional Lutheranism.

0:29.7

The free online issues, et cetera, journal.

0:32.0

Music We think of heresies in the church as something of the past, something that the ancient church had to struggle with, answer with solid confessions and councils and creeds, but that they've gone away.

0:53.6

Well, they haven't. Most of them

0:55.2

simply go dormant and find another way of expressing themselves. And the proponents of a doctrine

1:00.7

called the eternal subordination of the sun certainly do not intend to reintroduce some of the

1:08.9

eras of Aryanism, an ancient heresy, but it looks like they are.

1:14.0

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about the heresy of

1:18.8

Aryanism, both past and present. Dr. Carl Beckwith, he's professor of historical theology,

1:24.5

Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, he's author of a column

1:28.2

for the latest Concordia Theological Quarterly titled Eternal Subordination of the Sun,

1:33.2

Arianism Past and Present.

1:35.4

Dr. Beckwith, welcome back.

1:37.1

Thank you. It's wonderful to be back.

1:38.9

This is a pretty complicated debate over the nature of the Trinity that has, as you say, divided theologians and Bible interpreters all over the globe. How would you describe this debate over the nature of the Trinity to a Sunday morning Bible class?

1:54.0

Well, for starters, I would take a long time to do that. When we talk about the doctrine of the Trinity, one of the things

2:02.8

I think we want to be attentive to is aiming for clarity and what we are saying, but also then

2:09.8

what we're not saying. Maybe the Athanasian Creed is a good example of this, right? We say this,

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