Fred SandersA scene from the Leben der heiligen Altväter (1482)
Salvation
The Holy Spirit, the Trinity in Salvation, Retrieval
A conversation with Brandon Smith about the subjects I’ve been writing on lately.
Review of Harrower, God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of this World
Working from the conviction that Christian theology has deep resources for those who have experienced trauma, this volume explores “how God the Trinity engages with horrors and trauma, and what people can hope for in light…
Spiritual Formation in the Trinity: A Review Essay of Donald Fairbairn’s Life in the Trinity
As I was rearranging some shelves recently, I was struck by the fact that my books on spiritual formation occupy a peculiar region. They live somewhere toward the end of the whole theological collection, after the…
Saved by Word and Spirit: The Shape of Soteriology in Donald Bloesch’s Christian Foundations
The late Donald Bloesch did not allocate one of the seven volumes of his Christian Foundations series to soteriology, so there is no single book to turn to in order to examine his doctrine of salvation. Earlier in his career, he did write entire books on the subject: in fact, close attention to the experience of piety and the Christian life was the main motif his first publications, and significantly dictated the formal and material decisions of his influential two volume Essentials of Evangelical Theology. Nor is Bloesch’s soteriology distributed evenly across all seven volumes of Foundations: it is focused in two volumes. Those two volumes are the books on Jesus Christ: Savior and Lord (1997) and The Holy Spirit: Works and Gifts (2000).
