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May 4, 2026—Defenders · Reasonable FaithDoctrine of Christ Part 1: The Incarnation
Dr. William Lane Craig opens the Christology unit of his Defenders series by introducing the two-part structure of the doctrine of Christ: the person of Christ (the Incarnation) and the work of Christ (the Atonement). Dr…
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May 5, 2026—Defenders · Reasonable FaithDoctrine of Christ Part 2: Apollinarianism
Dr. William Lane Craig continues the Christology unit by examining the first major monophysite solution to the Incarnation: Apollinarianism. Apollinaris of Laodicea (died 390 AD) identified a key problem — if Christ poss…
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May 7, 2026—Defenders · Reasonable FaithDoctrine of Christ Part 3: Nestorianism and the Road to Chalcedon
Dr. William Lane Craig turns from the monophysite Christology of Apollinaris to its dyophysite alternative — the Antiochian school — and walks through the second great Christological crisis of the early church. He begins…
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May 10, 2026—Defenders · Reasonable FaithDoctrine of Christ Part 4: Chalcedon and the Kenotic Challenge
Dr. William Lane Craig revisits the Chalcedonian Definition (451 AD) before turning to the most serious modern challenge to it — Kenotic Christology. He reads the Definition in full and unpacks its four guard-rail adverb…
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May 17, 2026—Defenders · Reasonable FaithDoctrine of Christ Part 5: A Possible Model — Plank One
Having surveyed the historical controversies, Dr. William Lane Craig begins constructing his own proposed model of the Incarnation. He emphasizes from the outset that the model is offered as a possibility, not a definiti…
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May 24, 2026—Defenders · Reasonable FaithDoctrine of Christ Part 6: Plank Two — A Reformed Apollinarian Move
Dr. William Lane Craig advances his proposed model of the Incarnation with its second plank — a controversial but, he argues, repairable move: postulate with Apollinarius that the Logos (the second person of the Trinity)…
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