[Editor’s Note: The editorial team, being aware of Dr. Glenn Butner’s 2015 article in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (“Eternal Functional Subordination and the Problem of the Divine Will”) asked him if he would be willing to distill the…
Is it important for a Christian parachurch organization to align with our faith’s historic, orthodox confessions on the Trinity? After reading Owen Strachan’s response to Carl Trueman and Liam Goligher, I have to ask that question. Writing on complementarianism, Strachan…
Ref21 readers who are familiar with the British theologian John Webster will, I’m sure, already know that he passed away late last month. I’m equally sure that many readers of this site will not have heard of Webster, or will…
Michel R. Barnes and Lewis Ayres have weighed in on the current debate over the eternal generation and eternal subordination of the Son. Drs. Barnes and Ayres are considered by many to be among the most significant Patristic scholars…
Michel R. Barnes and Lewis Ayres have weighed in on the current debate over the eternal generation and eternal subordination of the Son. Drs. Barnes and Ayres are considered by many to be among the most significant Patristic scholars…
There is a profoundly important section titled, “On the Preaching of the Word,” in The Directory for the Public Worship of God, in which we find a very short and very wise statement about the minister’s responsibility to refute false teaching…
The following article is from Dr. Mark Jones. I am grateful for his labor and sobriety over this matter. Most debates I read of today have a parallel with another debate that has taken place over the course of…
I am delighted (We are not worthy!) to be able to publish the following guest post from my friend and mentor, John Calvin, as a rejoinder to those who think 1Cor. 11:3 is a knockdown argument for eternal submission and…
Many of you are no doubt aware of the current controversy within the Reformed complementarian community about the issue of grounding male and female roles of subordination in the inner-Trinitarian life of the Godhead. The desire to establish the rationale…
Wayne Grudem — with whom I do share a cordial personal relationship (politics and now Nicene issues aside) — has weighed in on the issue of the day. Again, I am grateful for the measured but firm response. To…
