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Redefining Progress in Trinitarian Theology: Stephen R. Holmes on the Trinity
In various ways, much of the best new work on the doctrine of the Trinity can be considered counter-revolutionary. Nicaea was more doctrinally holistic than merely a refutation of one heresy; Augustine was not merely as bad Colin Gunton alleged; Aquinas did not sever the treatise on the One God from the treatise on the Trinity; De Régnon was overly schematic with his East-West distinction, and so on. The new wave of counter-revolutionary trinitarianism begs to differ, and is finding ways to leap over the orthodoxies of the recent past to get back in touch with a longer narrative that makes more sense. Steve Holmes’s book is the feistiest of this new wave of counter-revolutionary trinitarianism, and serves as a kind of clearing house for all the recent moves, stating them more succinctly, more coherently, and more explosively.
The Theology of First John
A 2014 Torrey lecture in which I explain First John’s particular theological emphases, its rhetorical strategy, and how it functions as a kind of interpretive capstone of God’s revelation.
“Reading Spiritual Classics as Evangelical Protestants” (from Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics)
Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel edited a wonderful book called Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals (IVP, 2013). J.I. Packer called the book “an absolutely unrivaled mapping by experts of the whole church’s…
Theology on the Web
“The web…is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” says a character in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. He was talking about “the web of our life,” but the same “mingled” character applies to the…
Honest to God, a Voice from Heaven? Communicative Theism in Vanhoozer’s Remythologizing Theology
At the 2012 ETS national conference, Mark Bowald emceed a set of critical interactions with Kevin Vanhoozer’s major work on the doctrine of God, Remythologizing Theology. These essays, by John Franke, Steve Wellum, Oliver Crisp, and…
The L.A. Theologian
A lovely profile by theologian friend James Arcadi, attempting to make sense of some of the regionalist work I’ve done: It’s the middle of winter and 75 degrees and sunny at Biola University in La Mirada,…
The One Person of Jesus ChristG. Campbell Morgan Theology Conference 2013
Session from the 2013 G. Campbell Morgan Theology Conference, sponsored by Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute.
The God Behind the Gospel
When people get saved, they don’t usually notice that something trinitarian has happened to them. But “something trinitarian” is precisely what goes on in salvation: Everyone who has saving faith has been drawn by the Father…
Review of Treier and Lauber’s Trinitarian Theology for the ChurchScripture, Community, Worship
The Trinity was forgotten for a period of “centuries of doctrinal tragedy,” until suddenly in the middle of the twentieth century, theologians rediscovered it. Several decades after that ecumenical rediscovery, evangelical theologians are finally catching up. “So goes…
Simple, Triune GospelReview of Tim Chester, Delighting in the Trinity
Tim Chester. Delighting in the Trinity: Why Father, Son, and Spirit Are Good News. New Malden, England: The Good Book Company, 2010. 192 pp. $17.99. Tim Chester starts his book Delighting in the Trinity with this vignette: “I was…
John Wesley as a Happy Puritan
I recently finished writing a book on John Wesley, soon to be released in a new series from Crossway. The book is titled Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love. It was a delight…
“You’re a Calvinist, Right?”
I get this question a lot, from a certain kind of people: Calvinists who are excited about the gospel, discipleship, Bible study, and robust theology. We have so much in common that it sometimes comes as…
The New Normal TrinitarianismReview of Our Triune God: Living in the Love of the Three-in-One By Philip Graham Ryken, Michael LeFebvre
The New Normal Trinitarianism I hope that Philip Ryken and Michael Lefebvre’s little book Our Triune God: Living in the Love of the Three-in-One (Crossway, 2011) represents the status quo in evangelical trinitarianism. I think it…
Foreword to Harrower’s Trinitarian Self and SalvationAn Evangelical Engagement with Rahner’s Rule
Modern Trinitarian theology has rejoiced in its discovery of the way God has made himself known in the economy of salvation. Operating under the broad guidance of Rahner’s Rule (“The economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and…
The Awkward Guest in the Evangelical Household
The doctrine of the Trinity has a peculiar place in the minds and hearts of evangelical Christians. How has it come about that so many evangelicals today are cold toward the doctrine of the Trinity, confused…
Differentiating the Work of the Son and Spirit in Salvation
Over and over in our Christian experience we note the difference between the Son and the Spirit. There are many things we say about the Son of God that we would never say about the Spirit….
Trinitarian Theology’s Exegetical Basis: A Dogmatic Survey
One of the chief obligations laid upon trinitarian theology in our time is that it renders the doctrine of the Trinity with unprecedented clarity as a biblical doctrine, or, to speak more precisely, as a doctrine that is in the Bible. If there ever was a time when theology could afford to hurry past this task, with an impatient wave of the hand in the general direction of scripture, that time is not now.
Review of Budde and Wright’s Conflicting AllegiancesThe Church-based University in a Liberal Democratic Society
The central idea of this set of essays (which grew out of a 2002 conference at Point Loma Nazarene University) is that all modern Christian university education has been distorted and truncated by the constraints placed…
