Re: great creationists of the past

Who was the wag who said Newton believed in the Trinity, - Father -Isaac and
Holy Spirit?

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>
To: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>; "Mervin Bitikofer"
<mrb22667@kansas.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: great creationists of the past

> Bill, Newton was unitarian. While Ted Davis can speak much better than I
> about this, "Arian" might be a good label. Among Newton's unpublished
> manuscripts in Trinity College, Cambridge (irony of ironies) are pages of
> quotations from the church fathers that Newton collated, seeking evidence
> against the doctrine of the Trinity. (Ted's mentor at Indiana University
> was Sam Westfall, who probably knew those manuscripts better than anyone
> else in our time; I also had the privilege of being guided by Sam during
> my first sabbatical. He had just come back from a summer in the Trinity
> library going through the Newton theological manuscripts and had some neat
> stories to tell.)
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
> To: "Mervin Bitikofer" <mrb22667@kansas.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: great creationists of the past
>
>
>> While Isaac Newton may very well have been a creationist, if the
>> creationists
>> who made up the list had delved into his beliefs, they might not have
>> wanted to
>> include him. My understanding is that Newton was an Arian.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Hamilton
>> William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
>> 248.652.4148 (home) 248.303.8651 (mobile)
>> "...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
>>
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Received on Sat Apr 15 15:31:17 2006