Posts by Fred Sanders

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

One of 2024’s most helpful books on the Trinity is Beholding the Triune God: The Inseparable Work of Father, Son, and Spirit, by Matt Emerson and Brandon Smith. I’ve been…

Lutheran theologian Friedrich Balduin (1575-1627) wrote a commentary on Paul’s letters, compendiously filled with goodies from previous ages, and animated by doctrinal interest. Balduin also has some diagramming skills. This little…

Here are some suggestions I’ve shared in a few places for how to teach the doctrine of the Trinity to children. Consider me an amateur as a teacher of young…

As I work on my theological commentary on Ephesians, I usually follow pretty predictable tracks. Ephesians has drawn centuries of excellent interpretation, including some powerful recent scholarship from professional exegetes.…

In his intro to the new translation of Campegius Vitringa’s Fundamentals of Sacred Theology, Levi Berntson describes how Vitringa, in numerous other works, defended the traditional (Nicene) doctrine of the…

God has imprinted truth and meaning into the history of salvation, making that history not just a series of events in which he did something, but a carrier of revelation.…

This is the eulogy I delivered for my stepfather-in-law, William Ralph Paris, on Sept 25, 2024 in western Kentucky. I should have spoken a little more about the presence of…

Looking into the root and meaning of the divine name Jah, Johannes Cocceius opened up a suggestive line of thought which later Protestant theologians developed further. And I think it…

The library of the Dominican monastery in Engelberg, Germany has a twelfth-century copy of Augustine’s Confessions. On the opening page is an illustration (an illumination) of Augustine in prayer. The…