Archive for April 2021
Demonstrating the Existence of God
In a recent article I discussed what would be entailed in recovering the Great Tradition of metaphysics that was presupposed by those who wrote the Protestant confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries. Many Protestants today do not understand what it means to be a Protestant Christian because they cannot understand the theology of the…
Read MoreOne on One about the Three in One: A Series of Theological Conversations on the Trinity
Over the past several weeks, Credo Magazine has highlighted a series of conversations between various theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. Each conversation has focused on a different chapter from Barrett’s new book: Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). The topics covered include the eternal generation of…
Read MoreThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Trinity: Fred Sanders, Matthew Barrett, and the Dangers of Conflation
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this episode, Fred Sanders and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 4 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Sanders and Barrett explore the way the missions reveal the processions of the Trinity, and…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Trinity with Fred Sanders and Matthew Barrett.
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this episode, Fred Sanders and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 4 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Sanders and Barrett explore the way the missions reveal the processions of the Trinity, and…
Read MoreEqual in Glory, Coeternal in Majesty
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with KJ Drake. Drake is Assistant Professor of History at Redeemer University in Hamilton, Otario. He is the author of The Flesh of the World: The extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy.…
Read MoreOvercome Evil with Good
It took five hours for someone to pull together enough courage to tell missionary Gladys Staines that her husband and two young sons were dead. Graham Staines, fifty-eight, had been working with leprosy patients in India since he was twenty-four years old. He cared for the sick, preached the gospel, worked on Bible translation and…
Read MoreSimplicity and Trinity, Friends or Foes?
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with Ryan Hurd. Hurd is a teaching fellow at The Davenant Institute and is systematic theologian whose area of expertise is doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity. He has written a number of…
Read MoreEavesdrop on a Theological Conversation: Recent Episodes of the Credo Podcast
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of theology? In the last several episodes of the Credo Podcast, the doctrine of the trinity has been on center stage. Some of the issues that have been covered include social trinitarianism, the doctrine of inseparable operations, the eternal functional subordination of the Son, the relationship between divine…
Read MoreSubordination or Simplicity?
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with James R. Gordon. Gordon teaches in the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College (IL), where he completed his PhD in systematic theology in 2015. He is the author of The Holy One in…
Read MoreReading Ezra-Nehemiah Theologically
The book of Ezra-Nehemiah—books in the Protestant canon but only one book in the Hebrew Bible—tell the story of the Jewish people’s return to the promised land. More specifically, it tells the story of God fulfilling his promise “through Jeremiah” (Ezra 1:1) to restore his people to the land. They have lived through the horrors…
Read More10 Weeks on the Trinity: Knowing the Trinity – Inseparable Operations
In this concluding lecture from the For the Church Institute, Matthew Barrett introduces his listeners to the doctrine of inseparable operations. This doctrine reveals that the external works of the Trinity are undivided and, indeed, indivisible. The triune God works as one because he is one. Barrett examines Ephesians 1, one of the richest trinitarian…
Read MoreSince When Did the Trinity Go Social? Craig Carter and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this video, Craig Carter and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 3 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Carter and Barrett discuss topics such as the legacy of Nicaea in light of the…
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