Trinity

Book Review: God Is (Crossway)

Ryan McGraw
Feb 20, 2018
Mark Jones, God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017). 240pp. Hardcover. $19.99. M any theologians have complained recently that Reformed theology has stressed the divine attributes to the neglect of divine triunity. Whether such an assessment of classic...

From ABC to PhD: The Holy Trinity

Tim Bertolet
Feb 7, 2018
As we think about the Trinity and seek to grow in our understanding of this Biblical doctrine, it is always helpful to use resources of others who have spent more time thinking about the Trinity. To this end, I would like to recommend Robert Letham’s book The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History,...

From ABC to PhD: A Thorough Trinitarian Summary

David Smith
Feb 5, 2018
Review of B. B. Warfield, “The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity,” in Collected Works , vol. 2, (NY: Oxford UP, 1929; Reprint Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991), 133-72. The belief that there is “one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal...

Preaching and the Mission of the Trinity

Ryan McGraw
Nov 11, 2017
Every divine work reflects God's Triunity. This means that if we want to understand what God is doing in our lives we must begin with who God is. The Father always acts through his Son and by his Spirit. We come to the Father, by the Spirit, through the Son (Eph. 2:18). Preaching in relation to...

Classic Theism: Trinitarian Errors

Amy Mantravadi
Jul 21, 2017
"Let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me…" (Jeremiah 9:24a) That verse captures the goal of Trinitarian theology: to know the amazing God that we worship. It is a task in which we must confess our impotence, for we are limited by both our own fallible reason and the...

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...

Experiencing the Trinity (Free Ebook)

Editors
Dec 16, 2016
Crossway is giving away an ebook version of Experiencing the Trinity , by our friend, Joe Thorn. All you have to do is fill out a brief survey . In light of all the recent debate about the intertrinitarian relations, this would be a good book to work through. Today is the last day to fill out the...

A God Thing

David Garner
Nov 15, 2016
Exuberant over an experience, an oh-so-sweet manifestation of divine providence, you delightedly seek to give God praise in telling your story. “It was such a ‘God thing’,” you proclaim. As you see it, God wove together an otherwise inexplicable combination of events to deliver a wonderful—even...

The Trinity: Applying the Doctrine of the Trinity

Jeffrey Stivason
Aug 19, 2016
Let's face it, in common parlance pastoral means practical. What is more, people want the practical. I don't blame them. I just had the joy of reacquainting with a young woman who has recently experienced conversion. The next day I gave her Alistair Begg's, Pathway to Freedom: How God's Law Guides...

The Trinity: The Triune God for Exiles

John Hartley
Aug 18, 2016
How do you explain to yourself why you are a Christian? Why do you think your life is a Christian life and not some other kind of life? Do you tell yourself you have a Christian life mostly for social reasons? It’s good for the children. Your parents raised you in a Christian church. Your...