A scene from the Leben der heiligen Altväter (1482)
Trinity
Trinity and Salvation (Podcast)
Sam Fornecker of the Ridley Institute talks with me about the main ideas of my book, Fountain of Salvation. I think this conversation does a good job placing salvation under the trinitarian skylight that opens up…
Father Son, & Spirit: Does it Matter?
An hour-long interview with the guys at the Laymen’s Lounge, who asked me in a variety of ways why the Trinity matters for Christians in ordinary life.
Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Theology (from Theology for the Future)
Andrew Hollingsworth has edited a set of ten chapters on Theology for the Future: The Enduring Promise of Wolfhart Pannenberg, with a foreword by Friederike Nüssel and an afterword by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. I wrote the fifth…
“Clouds Will Never go Behind the Moon”Discussing the Trinity
Here’s a conversation with Gary Wilkerson about how, as a Christian, you can know the Trinity without knowing you know the Trinity. Sounds confusing because it is; it’s much better to know that you know. View…
The Whole Trinity in the Whole BibleResponse to Peter Leithart's "Triune Creator"
It is with eagerness and delight that Christian readers turn their attention to the triune God’s self-revelation in Scripture. We take in the whole book from the beginning to the end, and rise from our reading…
The Holy Spirit, the Trinity in Salvation, Retrieval
A conversation with Brandon Smith about the subjects I’ve been writing on lately.
Let the Mysteries of God Move You to Praise
A conversation on the incomprehensibility of God, especially as it relates to the Trinity. View it at Youtube, or click over to World Challenge’s site which has a good page that includes the video, an introduction,…
Follow the Trinity by Following ChristDiscipleship in a Trinitarian Key
There is no more straightforward way of describing the Christian life than to call it discipleship. Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is the core, the focus, and the form of what it means to be…
Disciples of the Trinity
Here is a 2021 talk I gave, with some Q & A at the end, about how the simplicity of discipleship and the depth of trinitarianism belong together. The talk was for a church group, from…
Junius on the Trinity
A series of video conversations about the trinitarian theology of Franciscus Junius (1545-1602), with Ryan M. Hurd, based on Ryan’s translation of Junius’ Disputation on the Father and the Son.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Trinity
A wide-ranging 2021 conversation with Matthew Barrett about one of the chapters from his book Simply Trinity.
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…
Review of Daley’s Leontius of Byzantium
This impressive volume provides the full text, in Greek with an English translation on facing pages, of six polemical works attributed to an accomplished sixth-century monastic theologian. It also includes much of the necessary textual arcana,…
Book Symposium on The Triune God
This suite of responses to Fred Sanders’ book The Triune God (Zondervan, 2016) is from papers originally read at the 2016 annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. This symposium publishes the papers by Wesley Hill,…
Holy Scripture Under the Auspices of the Holy TrinityOn John Webster's Trinitarian Doctrine of Scripture
As he approached the monumental task of writing his own systematic theology, John Webster gave strategic attention to constructing a doctrine of Scripture that was adequate to support such a project. In contrast to some well-respected…
5 Myths About the Trinity
Myth #1: It’s only for theology experts. The doctrine of the Trinity is for everybody who is saved by Jesus. Or, to say that just a little more elaborately, it’s for everybody who has been drawn…
Seeing the Trinity in Scripture
a 2018 lecture at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, TX. Heavily illustrated, well edited, and with the benefit of a responsive, live audience.
Foreword to Hongyi Yang, A Development, Not a DepartureThe Lacunae in the Debate of the Doctrine of the Trinity and Gender Roles (Reformed Academic Dissertation)
(Hongyi Yang’s book may be purchased from P&R, or at Amazon) The public controversy over trinitarian theology that culminated online in the summer of 2016 was a remarkable event. Academics and commentators, pastors and laypeople, experts…