Trinitarianism

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...

The Divine Missions Podcast

Jonathan Master
Jan 23, 2023
How do you envision a triune God carrying out the divine missions? Do you picture the Son and Spirit departing the throne room—lunchboxes in hand—only to return to Heaven in the evening and report to the Father? If so, how might we understand our communion with God or the presence of Jesus in the...

Eating and Drinking with God Podcast

Jonathan Master
Aug 24, 2021
This week, Jonathan and James chat with Ken Golden. Ken’s a writer and contributor for reformation21.org, pastor of Sovereign Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Illinois, and the author of Presbytopia and Entering God’s Rest . Today, Ken is joining us to talk about his most recent book, Eating...

God Is Never Absent: Omnipresence

Keith Kauffman
Oct 21, 2020
“The guy upstairs.” “The big man in the sky.” These are just two of the more common, modern slang terms for God. Aside from being utterly irreverent, they transgress the Second Commandment of having no graven images of God in that they grossly mistake this important attribute of God: His...

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...

Dr. Watts' Scheme

Nick Batzig
Apr 13, 2019
Isaac Watts wrote nearly 600 hymns in the 18th Century. Churches around the world still sing many today. For instance, if you visited a congregation on any given Sunday in the English speaking world, it would not be a surprise for you to hear believers singing one the following hymns penned by the...

Equal in Power, Unequal in Authority?

Rachel Green Miller
Aug 6, 2018
During the Trinity debate two summers ago, there were a handful of attempts to reconcile orthodox teaching on the Trinity with the eternal subordination of the Son (ESS). One approach was to make a distinction between divine power and divine authority. Some proponents of ESS said they affirmed that...

Equal in Power, Unequal in Authority?

Rachel Green Miller
Aug 6, 2018
During the Trinity debate two summers ago, there were a handful of attempts to reconcile orthodox teaching on the Trinity with the eternal subordination of the Son (ESS). One approach was to make a distinction between divine power and divine authority. Some proponents of ESS said they affirmed that...

Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 2)

Richard Muller
Feb 26, 2018
Oliphint's discussion of Aquinas' view of God draws heavily on the claims of Cornelius Van Til, one of whose basic points of critique is that Aquinas' "idea of the analogy of being compromises the biblical doctrine of creation." 1 In Van Til's view, the notion of an analogy of being comes directly...