Fred SandersA scene from the Leben der heiligen Altväter (1482)
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Foreword to Hames’ Cyril of Alexandria: His Life & Impact
Daniel Hames, Cyril of Alexandria: His Life and Impact (Christian Focus, 2024). In the Early Church Fathers series, edited by Michael A.G. Haykin and Shawn J. Wilhite. Foreword by Fred Sanders Reputations rise and fall, but…
The Eternal Love of Godfrom Thaddeus Williams' Revering God
My Biola colleague Thaddeus Williams invited me to write a short, personal account of how the truth of the Trinity had affected my life. The brief report (less than a thousand words) was one of a…
“Only Begotten Son: The Doctrinal Functions of Eternal Generation”
Matthew Barrett has edited a large set of essays On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God (IVP Academic, 2024). My contribution to the volume is chapter 24, on the doctrine of eternal…
Foreword to Anderson’s Called into Questions
Matthew Lee Anderson has written a book on the nature of questions in the life of faith, and I commend it to you. In fact, I commend it so much that I wrote a couple pages…
Pauline Trinitarianism from The Trinity in the Canon
Brandon Smith has edited an impressive set of essays on the Biblical doctrine of the Trinity, entitled The Trinity in the Canon (B&H, 2023). Weighing in at 15 chapters in 483 pages, the volume is a…
Why Christmas is Bigger than EasterThe Incarnation exists for the Atonement, but it is also so much more.
Wait … is this actually on the Incarnation? If you take up Athanasius’s fourth-century classic On the Incarnation for your Advent or Christmas reading, you’ll likely find yourself asking this very question. For you’ll soon make the discovery that…
Foreword to Reasoner’s Fundamental Wesleyan Systematic Theology, Volume 3
Victor Paul Reasoner of the Fundamental Wesleyan Society has published a three-volume systematic theology from the conservative Wesleyan perspective. Vic asked me to write a foreword for one of the volumes, and I was glad to…
Incorruptible Trinity: Sketch of a Doctrine
Abstract: The doctrine of divine incorruptibility deserves more focused attention than it has generally received, especially in the modern period. This article draws the doctrine from its Scriptural sources (especially making use of the phthora word-group)…
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…
The Triune God (from Companion to Webster)
This excellent volume explores the theology of John Webster, in seventeen chapters by significant theologians. Here is an excerpt from my chapter on Webster’s approach to the doctrine of the Trinity: “There is only one Christian…
William Burt Pope (1822-1903): Primary and Secondary Creation
I wrote the chapter on William Burt Pope in this collection of essays on modern theologians and how they handled the doctrine of creation in light of science. It was great to be included among a…
A Profound MysteryHow the Trinity Helps in Our Evangelism
Here’s a piece I wrote for the FIEC publication called Primer. It’s available in the November 2019 print edition (full issue, free!). David Shaw provided some excellent editing for me that made the article much clearer,…
“Wesleyan View”
For whom did Christ die? Who may be saved? are questions of perennial interest and importance for the Christian faith. In a familiar Counterpoints format, this book explores the question of the extent of Christ’s atonement,…
Undiminished, Transcendent, and Relevant: Joseph Ratzinger on Teaching on the Trinity
I wrote the Trinity chapter, entitled “Undiminished, Transcendent, and Relevant: Joseph Ratzinger on Teaching on the Trinity,” in the book Benedict XVI: An Evangelical Appreciation of the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger, ed Tim Perry (Lexham Press,…
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,…
Foreword to Barrett, None Greater
(None Greater can be purchased from Baker Books or at Amazon) Usually when theologians find out they were wrong about something, they admit it readily enough. But then they cover their tracks. They revise their views…
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…
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…
