Posts by Timothy Gatewood
Can the church fathers help us interpret the Bible?
What obstacles do we have to overcome when interpreting the Bible? What do the fathers say about our disposition as interpreters when approaching the text? In what sense do the fathers read the Old Testament Christologically? In this Credo Video, Craig Carter explains how the church fathers inform our hermeneutic. Listen to Carter as he…
Read More25 Theses on Trinitarian Classical Theism
The following theses are from Craig Carter’s book, Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism (Baker Academic, 2021). These theses are a corrective to the relational theism so prevalent in Protestantism, and serve to help evangelicals today return to the biblical, classical, and Nicene doctrine of God. This is what Matthew Barrett…
Read MoreEaster Resurrection – The Trinity
Does the doctrine of the Trinity have anything to do with Easter? What does it mean for Jesus to be the Son of God? Matthew Barrett looks to John 5 to explain the relationship between Jesus’s resurrection and the believers’ hope of a final resurrection. Pointing to doctrines such as aseity, simplicity, and eternal generation,…
Read MoreResurrection Life in the Age to Come
The traditional picture of the eternal state as an ethereal, floaty, intangible, interminable disembodied church service is frankly bizarre and unappealing. It is small wonder that many professing Christians remain so firmly attached to this present life, despite what they may tell their Sunday school teachers. In this message entitled “Resurrection Life in the Age…
Read MoreThe Importance of the Covenant of Works
Why is the history of the covenant of works an important topic of study? To answer this question, we should first briefly define the doctrine and, second, rehearse its origins, development, and reception. We will then be able to reflect on why the history of the covenant of works is worthy of our study. The…
Read MoreActs and the Exaltation of Christ
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.” Acts 1:1–2 (ESV, emphasis added) Thus begins the book of Acts, which serves…
Read MoreHow to Read Genesis Theologically
Reading Genesis theologically is essential if we are going to have sound theology in the church that enables rational worship and gospel preaching. Many interpreters focus on the question of how Genesis and science can be related, but I think this is an unhelpful place to begin. We first need to consider what Genesis has…
Read MoreThe Importance of Ecclesiology in Church Planting
Church planting is a culture all of its own. Church planters often look different, think different, and act different than the typical pastor we experienced growing up. Further, church plants look different and function differently than the typical church we knew growing up. Around the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries a movement arose called,…
Read MoreCan We Have Communion with the Trinity? Kelly Kapic and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity based on his new book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). In this video, Kelly Kapic and Matthew Barrett invite Puritan John Owen to help listeners better understand the implications behind inseparable operations.…
Read MoreDoes the Trinity work inseparably? Ryan Hurd and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity based on his new book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). In this video, Ryan Hurd and Matthew Barrett explain why it is so essential to confess the doctrine of inseparable operations. The…
Read MoreWhy Should Evangelicals Reject the Eternal Subordination of the Son? Michael Bird and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity in view of Barrett’s new book Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit. The trinitarian view known as Eternal Functional Subordinationism (EFS) has become a popular position over the last several decades. In this view, the…
Read MoreDoes Eternal Subordination Compromise Biblical Orthodoxy? Liam Goligher and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. The trinitarian view known as Eternal Functional Subordinationism (EFS) has become a popular position over the last several decades. In this view, the Trinity is defined as a type of society, a society or roles and relationships.…
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