If the entire bible clearly and repeatedly teaches that there is one supreme God who is over all and that Jesus is his subordinate son, then surely we should find evidence of this idea in the historical writings of Christians after the New Testament period. Within the four broad strands of Christianity in the second and third centuries, three of them embraced thoroughgoing subordinationism while the fourth–the modalists–taught that Jesus was the Father. In this episode, we’ll focus on the three early subordinationist groups: the Gnostics, the Dynamic Monarchians, and the Logos Incarnationists to explore what they each believed about Jesus.
