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Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week the crew invites James Dolezal for a crucial conversation on the doctrine of God. James is the assistant professor of Theology in the School of Divinity of Cairn University. In his latest book All That Is in God he defends the classic orthodox doctrine of God while engaging with some contemporary deviations.What is divine simplicity? Why is it so important for the doctrine of the Trinity? What’s the cost of getting it wrong? Can we even have a doctrine of the Trinity without it? The answers are not so simple, but James does a wonderful job taking us back in history and guiding us through.And what do a Capuchin Friar, classic rock, and Thomas Aquinas have in common? Well, you’ll have to listen to find out!We have a several copies of "All That Is In God" by James Dolezal courtesy of Reformation Heritage Books that we are giving away. Enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.8	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin. I'm here with my usual co-hosts, Todd Pruitt,
0:49.2	pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Amy Bird, the Harris-wife Theologian.
0:56.6	Today we've got a special guest. He's actually a former student of mine. He occasionally
1:00.4	steps in and teaches classes for me when I have something more important than teaching students
1:05.1	to do for a better offer. And he's also assistant professor of theology at Cairn University, just outside
1:12.3	Philadelphia. It's James Dahlzel. Welcome to the program, James. Thanks for having me. Glad to be here.
1:18.2	It's great to have you on. And James has achieved a degree of notoriety over the last few years by, of things defending the classical orthodox doctrine of God.
1:33.2	As we have found is unfortunately a little bit controversial.
1:37.5	Yeah.
1:38.3	You never thought it would be avant-garde to be classically orthodox.
1:43.2	Right, right.
1:43.6	You did your PhD at Westminster course, which was later published as God Without Parts,
1:48.8	which I've seen described by both Protestant and Catholic theologians as one of the
1:54.6	single best defenses of divine simplicity over recent decades.
2:00.5	And he has a forthcoming book,
2:03.7	All That Is In God, Subtitled Evangelical Theology in the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism,
2:10.6	which is in many ways an attempt to apply at a more popular level,
2:16.1	the insights that he developed in God without parts, and to bring
2:20.8	home to the evangelical Christian audience that debates about the doctrine of God, while they
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