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Originally Posted by pelathais
He did rehearse some of the often trite Oneness arguments. But, for someone looking for a book that covers the Oneness view rather well, DKB's is probably "the standard." That this "standard" doesn't rise to the level that you and many others want is another matter.
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Hello all,
I do agree that DKB's
Oneness of God is still a good "standard" treatment of Oneness theology for those not wishing to engage in technical, scholastic theosophy. However, because of certain phraseology he employed which
appeared to posit a Nestorian Christ, his arguments were open to criticism from Trinitarianism. Although, in his defense, I do not believe he has ever held to a Nestorian Christ, nor even subconsciously reified Christ's two natures. Other Oneness believers knew what he meant; it was mostly Trinitarians who misinterpreted him!
As to the subject at hand, I think we can say that God is the only being who exists in multiple
concurrent distinctions of existence: transcendent (Father), immanent (Holy Spirit), and incarnate (Son). It is the interaction between these which the human mind tends to interpret as interactions of multiple
persons, and which ultimately gave rise to Trinitarianism. Oneness theology today seeks to understand the interactions between God's existential distinctions within the framework of classic monotheism (God is one in being AND person).
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