Today we feature a “Blast from the past,” one of the past issues of Credo Magazine. One of the dangers every church faces is slipping, slowly and quietly and perhaps unknowingly, into a routine where sermons are preached, songs are sung, and the Lord’s Supper is consumed, but all is done without a deep sense … Read More
Recently Scott Swain gave a lecture on the doctrine of the Trinity, providing a critique of B. B. Warfield, specifically Warfield’s hesitation with eternal generation. Swain helpfully demonstrates the significance of eternal generation and simultaneously explores the relationship between the immanent Trinity and the mission of the Son in the economy of salvation. Swain also explores … Read More
Many thanks to those of you who sent me emails last week after reflecting on my article: “Better late than never: The covenant of redemption and the Trinity debates.” I was genuinely encouraged at the ways it helped others think through this very complicated issue. Today I merely want to piggyback off that article and … Read More
“Care must be taken not to drive a wedge between the eternal or immanent Trinity and the revealed or economic Trinity. Otherwise confidence in God’s self-revelation will be undermined — how could we be sure this is how God really is? … Yet at the same time we must avoid a simple transfer of all we … Read More
Thus far in the online civil war over the Trinity I have been a fly on the wall. Yet curious students at Oak Hill Theological College have been pressing me as to my take on the debates, as well as my own view. So perhaps it is time I added a small voice to the … Read More
“Let us bring forward no isolated point of the divine mysteries to rouse the suspicions of our hearers and give an occasion to the blasphemers. We must first preach the birth and subordination of the Son [subjectio] and the likeness of His nature, and then we may preach in godly fashion that the Father and … Read More
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on the Oak Hill College blog. It is always awkward when someone you like and respect posts a line of argument which strongly suggests you should resign your position, as Liam Goligher has done in his two recent posts on the eternal subordination of the Son, on the Mortification of … Read More
Interviews by Matthew Claridge– What is the goal of our salvation? Common answers might include escaping hell fire, seeing departed loved ones, or living happily ever after in the New Heaven and New Earth. We all should know it goes deeper than that, and more well-informed answers would refer to the famed Westminster Catechism, “to … Read More
In a recent issue of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Matthew Barrett has contributed an article entitled, “‘We Believe in the Holy Spirit’: Revisiting the Deity of the Spirit.” The journal has just made the article, along with a few others, available for download. Matthew Barrett (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Assistant … Read More
The most recent issue of Credo Magazine is “The Trinity and the Christian Life: Why a Triune God Makes All the Difference.” To view the Magazine as a PDF One of the dangers every church faces is slipping, slowly and quietly and perhaps unknowingly, into a routine where sermons are preached, songs are sung, and … Read More
