Trinitarian Controversy

Review of Johnson's The Revealed God

Derrick Brite
Apr 22, 2024
Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Revealed God: An Introduction to Biblical Classical Theism (Conway, AR: Free Grace Press, 2023). [i] In a previous post , I asserted that the Trinity debates of the last several years have not ended. I mentioned that there were other classical views that were being...

No, The Trinity Debates Aren’t Over

Derrick Brite
Dec 30, 2023
In 2016, there was an eruption in conservative Evangelical and Reformed theologians surrounding the doctrine of the Eternal Functional Subordination of the Son (EFS). There’s no need to rehash what has already been said, as that has been summarized helpfully elsewhere . Needless to say, it was the...

God Not Divided: Simplicity

Tony Arsenal
Oct 15, 2020
The world is, at its very core, divided. There are divisions between races, between nations, between political parties, and on and on it goes. Even within our own selves we are divided. We desire to do good, but our flesh drives us to do evil. God is not like this. God is not divided. The doctrine...

Subordination in Scripture: Indivisible Divine Authority in Mutually Defining Relations

Alastair Roberts
Jan 30, 2017
In the previous post in this series, I made some remarks upon the meaning of the term κεφαλή, especially in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:3. Challenging the supposed meaning of this term among certain advocates of the eternal subordination of the Son (ESS) position is important. Not only does it...

Proverbs 8:23, the Eternal Generation of the Son and the History of Reformed Exegesis

Nick Batzig
Jan 10, 2017
The debate that raged last year concerning intertrinitarian relations fueled my desire to go back and revisit Richard Muller's volume on The Triunity of God in his Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics (a volume that I cannot commend strongly enough). In doing so, I happened across a brief yet...

The Eternal Subordination of the Son: The Need for Trinitarian Clarity (Part 2)

Alastair Roberts
Aug 22, 2016
In the previous post in this series, we began to consider some of the theological concerns that surface in the teaching of those who hold to a form of the ERAS/ESS position. In this post, we wish to consider these concerns in more detail. In particular, the ERAS/ESS position seems to demand that...