Archive for 2025
“If Christ does everything for us, how should we understand the importance of human reception?” Kathryn Tanner at LATC 2025
Kathryn Tanner, the Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School, will be delivering a plenary address at the Los Angeles Theology Conference (March 12-14). Registration is still…
Read MoreAndrew Davison at LATC 2025
The first plenary address at LATC 2025 (register now!) will be a wide-ranging introduction to the theology of receiving salvation. This talk, on Wednesday evening, will be by Andrew Davison,…
Read More“God’s Hearing is Both Anchored in God’s Classical Perfections and Also at the Heart of the Gospel:” Charles Helmer at LATC 2025
I don’t play favorites with the breakout sessions at LATC, and I’m excited about all (twelve!) of them. But I have to admit that the way Charles Helmer has developed…
Read More“Friendship and Sanctification:” Cambria Kaltwasser at LATC 2025
Cambria Kaltwasser will be at LATC 2025 in March presenting a paper that uses friendship as a theological category for thinking about the dynamics of salvation. Her work will feature…
Read More“A theocentric vision of health:” Todd Billings at LATC 2025
With the 2025 Los Angeles Theology Conference coming up in March, I’m posting mini-interviews with some of our speakers, asking them to share about what they’ll be presenting at the conference. We’re…
Read More“While God acts eternally, we receive that act in time.” Bauerschmidt at LATC 2025
With the 2025 Los Angeles Theology Conference coming up in March, I’m posting mini-interviews with some of our speakers, asking them to share about what they’ll be presenting at the…
Read MoreAdventures in Book Burning (Sermon)
Here’s video (below) and a rough manuscript (below below) of a sermon I preached for my church, Grace Evangelical Free Church of La Mirada, on Jan 26, 2025. We’re preaching…
Read More“Part of Something Much Bigger:” Canlis at LATC 2025
I had a chat via email with Julie Canlis about what she’ll be presenting at the Los Angeles Theology Conference (March 12-14 at Biola). Click through to see the list…
Read MoreWhat’s Common, What’s Proper (Basil)
There’s a passage in Basil of Caesarea’s Against Eunomius (written 364) that is so helpful that I keep coming back to it over and over. I think I had to…
Read MoreA More Helpful Word than “Generate?”
A while ago, I did some teaching about the doctrine of eternal generation. It’s something I teach about plenty: see this book, or this chapter, or this free article at…
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Fred Sanders