Jun 222006
In this recent piece in Books & Culture, I think Prof. Jacobs makes a lot of excellent points.
Can this blog be an exception? (As this blog is, as well as this one.) I hope so! Specifically, I hope that the following factors can minimize the problems Jacobs discusses:
- posting at a decent pace (no Instapundit-like continuous flow)
- leaving the comments open
- occasional weeding out of comments posted by meatheads
- maintaining an atmosphere of respect
- narrow focus
- soliciting comments and guest-postings from other philosophers & theologians who work on this topic
As I’m new at this, any other suggestions from veteran bloggers would be appreciated.
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Dale-
Congrats on the new blog. Nice.
You won’t remember me, but (with Alan Rhoda) we did a bit of emailing over open theism last year. Hope you’re doing well.
Hope to digest your thoughts on the Trinity.
Tom
Hey Tom – of course I remember you. Congrats on finishing off that paper your cowrote, and getting it accepted. Thanks – glad you’re reading!
Dale
[...] The other is a promising new blog, Trinities: Theories about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, by philosopher Dale Tuggy. Tuggy just lauched the blog this summer, but he’s been hard at work on the doctrine of the Trinity for several years now (see the entries under his name in my annotated bibliography). He seems to be that fine species of philosophical theologian who will tolerate no imprecision in thinking, and he’s even made some good strategic decisions about how to get serious work done in the admittedly dubious format of a blog. Tuggy says he “finds it bizarre and sad that so much recent work has gone unnoticed by non-philosophers,” and is doing his part to extend the conversation to anybody who’s willing to ponder along. He’s fricaseed some popular books that needed to be fricaseed, explained some basic conceptual tools for making progress in clear thinking about the Trinity, and last week he even put the spotlight on an article that I wrote about Oneness Pentecostalism, in a two-part (1,2) interaction with it that I need to get over there and respond to in the comments section. I certainly didn’t get fricaseed, but Tuggy did point out a few of my arguments that could stand to be made with greater precision. [...]