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Author: Fred Sanders

  • Christomorphic Pneumatology

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    Dr. Lucy Peppiatt was one of the plenary speakers at the 2020 Los Angeles Theology Conference, and published her paper as a chapter in the resulting book, The Third Person of the Trinity (just out this month from Zondervan Academic). Her chapter is entitled “The Spirit of the Lord: Reflections on a Christomorphic Pneumatology.” I…

  • The Presence(s) of the Holy Spirit

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    Dr. Daniel L. Hill wrote the chapter “”Holy Pedagogue, Perfecting Guide: The Holy Spirit’s Presence in Creation” in the book I recently co-edited with Oliver Crisp, The Third Person of the Trinity: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (Zondervan Academic, Dec. 2020). I asked him a few questions about what he does in that chapter, and how…

  • “The Problem of Thirdness”

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    At least one chapter in The Third Person of the Trinity directly addresses how odd it is to call the Holy Spirit “third,” what we might mean by doing so, and in what sense doing so might signal a theological problem. That chapter is co-authored by Dr. Joanna Leidenhag and Dr. Kimberley Kroll, who decided…

  • Unity, Spirit, and Church

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    I’ve been asking the authors of chapters from our recent book The Third Person of the Trinity (Zondervan Academic, Dec. 2020) to explain a little bit about what’s in each of their chapters. By the time the book appears in print, the editors (Oliver Crisp and I, along with Katya Covrett at Zondervan) have had…

  • A Black American Pneumatology of Freedom

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    The new book that Oliver Crisp and I co-edited, The Third Person of the Trinity (Zondervan, Dec 2020), has a dozen chapters exploring the doctrine of the Holy Spirit from a number of angles. I’d like to draw your attention to the one by my Biola colleague Leon Harris. Here’s a quick interview in which…

  • Spiritual Enlightenment and Pneumatological Epistemology

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    Daniel Castelo is Professor of Dogmatic and Constructive Theology at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary. He was one of the plenary speakers at the 2020 Los Angeles Theology Conference on the Holy Spirit, and contributed chapter 5 to the resulting book, The Third Person of the Trinity: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics. Oliver Crisp and I…

  • Filioque and Divine Missions

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    Adonis Vidu is Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He contributed chapter two to the new collection of essays on pneumatology that Oliver Crisp and I edited, The Third Person of the Trinity: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics. I knew that Adonis’ chapter, “Filioque and the Order of the Divine Missions,” tracked closely with recent…

  • A Technique of Indirect Communication

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    I just noticed an author using a technique for communicating very difficult subject matter, and I wanted to make a note of it. I’ve seen it employed in various kinds of writing, but my main interest in it is as a way of teaching theology. Here’s the example. It’s from Frederick Faber’s Bethlehem, a book-length…

  • “Who’s On Third?”

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    Oliver Crisp and I have edited a brand new book in Zondervan Academic’s Los Angeles Theology Conference series. This volume is on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and its title is The Third Person of the Trinity. The book is such a solid showcase of contemporary pneumatology that I want to share a few…

  • Hating Vain Thoughts

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    Just a quick note here on the blog, to hold a link to a helpful sermon from Richard Chenevix Trench, “On the Duty of Hating Vain Thoughts.” It’s from an 1886 collection of sermons freely available at various places online, but I excerpted the sermon itself and am sharing it (along with my own highlighting)…

  • Norms of Blessing

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    I almost missed this, because I wasn’t reading very closely in what I considered a mere devotional book by a forgotten author. I admit I don’t expect to be smacked with new insights from devotional reading. A few years ago I picked up a copy of William Hazer Wrighton’s book The Glory of His Grace:…

  • Polanus: Tales from the Classroom

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    Ten hours of discussion of the actual text wasn’t enough for us, so Ryan Hurd and I are inviting some guests to come talk with us about the trinitarian theology of Amandus Polanus. This week we asked Dr. Tyler Wittman to talk with us about using Polanus’ Eighteen Axioms on the Trinity to teach the…