The Son Who Learned Obedience

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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About three years ago, the Reformed quarters of the Internet were consumed with a fiery debate over the doctrine of the Trinity. Fast forward, and we find the Spin revisiting the topic today with Glenn Butner. He’s assistant professor of theology and Christian ministry at Sterling College, and author of The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son.In his book, Glenn deals with the main question: Is Jesus in eternal submission to the Father, as the second divine Person of the Trinity? Or, was His submission only in His human life on earth, as a result of the incarnation? The topic is a critical one, for its implications can have a domino effect, knocking over a number of essential Christian doctrines.Is there a problem in appealing to the doctrine of the Trinity to answer questions about the roles of husbands and wives? What roles do confessionalism and tradition play in this matter? You’re about to find out! Show NotesCouncil of Constantinople of 381 ADBiblicism vs. ConfessionalismRegister for the opportunity to win a free copy of Glenn’s book, The Son Who Learned Obedience. The copies are a generous gift from our friends at Pickwick Publications.Congratulations to the winners of the John G. Paton: The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides by Banner of Truth from our episode, Mission (Im)possible.Doug N. - Clendenin, WVAmy A. - Carrollton, TXJeanne H. - Newburgh, IN

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.4	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.5	Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mordification of spin.
0:46.8	My name's Carl Truman.
0:47.8	I'm a professor at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania.
0:51.1	And I'm here with my usual co-hosts, the Reverend Todd Pruitt, PCA pastor in
0:57.7	Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Amy Bird, the housewife theologian. Today we want to go a little
1:06.1	bit down memory lane and then look at a book that comments on something that this blog,
1:11.5	this podcast was actually instrumental in starting and that was the the now notorious internet
1:18.3	debate of 2016 on the nature of the Trinity and the social implications of the doctrine of the
1:26.9	Trinity for understanding male-female relations.
1:30.9	For those who are newcomers to Mordification of Spin, this was a vigorous discussion that was kicked off by a number of blog posts by our favourite tweet-fighting man, Liam Goliger, published by Amy Bird on her section of
1:47.3	the modification of Spin blog. The debate ran for for some months and caused a very full
1:53.0	explosion in contributions on the internet. Well, recently a very good book has been published,
2:00.5	which goes to the heart of many of the issues that were of critical importance in that discussion.
2:08.1	The book is entitled The Sun Who Learned Obedience, a theological case against the eternal submission of the sun.
2:16.1	It's written by D. Glenn Butner, Jr., who is assistant professor of theology and
2:21.1	Christian ministry at Sterling College in Kansas.
2:25.0	And it's a very great pleasure to have Glenn on the program today to discuss his book.
2:30.3	Welcome, Glenn.
2:31.8	Thanks for having me.
2:33.2	Thanks.
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