The concept of God

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• Christian tries to destroy HinduismArjuna answers a Christian short claiming an impersonal Hindu 'force' can't ground the world's wisdom: Hinduism is no monolith, the anti-impersonalist argument was made centuries ago by Vaishnava acharyas against Shankara, and the Bhakti God possesses every quality the creation displays. · Other · 7m· Feb 2025
• A New Thoery on the Metaphyics of God and Space ft. Jonathan LyonhartChristian theologian Jonathan Lyonhart presents his book Space God's thesis — Henry More's idea that space is divine lets God be radically immanent without Spinozan pantheism and conceptually grounded Newton's physics — while Arjuna maps it onto Chaitanya Vaishnavism's simultaneous oneness and difference, and both close ranks against Advaita-style impersonalism.Jonathan Lyonhart · Lecture · 58m· Feb 2024
• Theist and Atheist Scholars Discuss the Meaning and Value of LifeVaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) and atheist philosopher Ben Watkins both take the second horn of the Euthyphro dilemma and agree value is objective, then split over whether value needs God: Watkins deploys Laplace and the shopping-cart test to show morality runs without the hypothesis, while Resnick answers with Callicles' tyrant, the how/why distinction, and a God too free to be the conclusion of an argument.Benjamin Watkins, Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 1h 22m· Jun 2022
• A New Defence of the TrinityChristian philosopher Jonathan Lyonhart argues to host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna) that believing the logically contradictory Trinity is rational because the same being-becoming contradiction underlies every account of the universe's origin, while Gallagher counters that Chaitanya Vaishnavism's acintya-bheda-bheda-tattva already locates that mystery in a simpler, fully personal God.Jonathan Lyonhart · Lecture · 1h 52m· Jun 2022
• Does God Play Flute Dialogue with @MajestyofReason and Dr. Howard ResnickSanskritist and Vaishnava guru Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argues, against the classical theism Joe Schmid articulates as devil's advocate, that the greatest conceivable God must be personal, embodied, and emotionally responsive — and Schmid ends the dialogue admitting he is more open to divine form than when it began.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Joe Schmid · Lecture · 1h 2m· Feb 2022
• The Eastern Orthodox Monks who were Persecuted for their Faith in the Holy NameIn a scripted documentary, Alex Gallagher tells the 1913 imiaslavie ('name glorification') story — Russian Orthodox monks on Mount Athos water-cannoned, bayoneted, and deported by their own church for believing the name of God is God himself — and argues the persecution was politics, class, and threatened clerical power rather than any real theological refutation, with the doctrine paralleling Hare Krishna teaching on the holy name. · Lecture · 54m· Jan 2022
• The Hare Krishna Conception of God Discussion with Dr. Ryan Mullins and Dr. Kenneth ValpeyChristian philosopher Ryan Mullins cross-examines Hare Krishna scholar Kenneth Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami) to locate the Gaudiya Vaishnava conception of God among Western models, concluding it is best classed as a panentheism with a passible, temporal-yet-eternal, personally omniscient God who creates countless universes without effort, out of love, for the exchange of ever-expanding bliss.Kenneth Valpey, Ryan Mullins · Lecture · 2h· Oct 2021
• The Hare Krishna Conception of God WIth Kenneth Vapley (Krishna Kshetra Swami)Oxford-trained Gaudiya Vaishnava scholar Krishna Kshetra Swami (Kenneth Valpey) lays out the Bhagavan conception of God — an ocean of mutually contradictory qualities defined by plenitude and relationship — and argues with host Arjuna that Western classical theism describes only the Brahman aspect that Vaishnava theology both affirms and exceeds.Krishna Kshetra Swami · Lecture · 2h 7m· Oct 2021
• Interview with Dr. Ryan Mullins on Conceptions of GodAnalytic theologian Ryan Mullins maps the five major models of God — classical, neoclassical, open, panentheist, pantheist — and argues all four classical attributes (timelessness, immutability, impassibility, simplicity) should be rejected, while Arjuna tests each model against Gaudiya Vaishnava theology and argues Shankara's Advaita is just classical theism taken to its consistent extreme.Ryan Mullins · Interview · 2h 1m· Sep 2021
• Hare Krishna Reacts to Jordan Peterson's TheologyVaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami), reviewing Jordan Peterson clips with host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna), argues that Peterson's psychologized, long-timeframe God is an 'indirect theology' — metaphysical values wearing a God label — that cannot be loved, cannot play, and wrongly suffers and loses faith, while crediting Peterson's intellectual honesty and dismantling Sam Harris's religion-as-gullibility argument along the way.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 2h 1m· Aug 2021
• A Western Perspective on the Hare Krishna Conception of GodLogician and Hare Krishna practitioner Ricardo Silvestre attempts the first philosophical reconstruction of the Bhagavad Gita's concept of God — proposing 'conceptual plausibility' as a new criterion between coherence and existence — while Christian theologian Ryan Mullins classifies the Hare Krishna view as a passibilist panentheism and concludes it sits surprisingly close to Christian conceptions of God.Ricardo Silvestre, Ryan Mullins · Lecture · 2h 15m· Feb 2021