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Author: Fred Sanders

  • Not Forsaken: McCall Responds

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    For the past week and a half, Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson have been discussing Thomas H. McCall’s new book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters. See parts 1, 2, 3, & 4 if you missed our little cartoon theology-heads talking back and forth about this commendable book. As our discussion…

  • Victory, not Tragedy (Forsaken pt 3)

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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Further reflections on Tom McCall’s Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters, as Sanders and Jenson do a conversational review-but-not-a-review type blog thing. Our offices are right down the hall from each other, so you’d think…

  • Wrath of the Trinity (Forsaken pt. 2)

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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. More discussion of Tom McCall’s book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters, from Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson of Biola’s Torrey Honors Institute. In his second chapter, McCall considers the question, “Did the death of…

  • The Broken Trinity (Forsaken pt. 1)

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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Tom McCall’s recent Forsaken:  The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters (IVP, 2012—thanks to IVP for a copy!) is a very stimulating little book. Its four short chapters (just 165 pages total) are a series of focused…

  • Call for Papers: Christology at Los Angeles Theology Conference

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    This Friday October 12 is the deadline for submitting a paper proposal for the inaugural year of the Los Angeles Theology Conference. Since we announced this new annual event one month ago, there’s been quite a bit of excitement about it, mainly because of the great group of theologians who will be doing the plenary…

  • The Best Bible Institute in Los Angeles

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    I teach classes at the best Bible Institute in Los Angeles. I also work at Biola University, but that’s different. Biola was founded as a Bible Institute, way back in 1908. The founders of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles knew all about colleges (Lyman Stewart supported many colleges financially) and seminaries (R.A. Torrey was…

  • Bayard: How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

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    Pierre Bayard’s 2007 book How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read is a real page turner. The best I can tell, it’s an elaborate joke in which the authorial voice is a kind of fictional character. This character –I’ll call him Bayard while remaining agnostic about how he relates to the historical Bayard who…

  • Theology for the Great City: Los Angeles Theology Conference

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    I’ve lived in California for more than fifteen years now, working as a professional theologian and flying off every year to academic conferences here and there. But mostly there: we west coast theologians have to head east to tap into any significant academic theological culture. Much as I enjoy travelling, I have often wondered why…

  • REVEALED: How Cats Land on Their Feet

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    Phoebe Age Ten is an artist whose finest work occurs in her sketchbooks. It is in these small, impromptu productions between major artworks that she makes real progress as an artist, and indeed, makes real progress as an observer of the natural forms that animate her drawings. Consider today’s sketch, “how cats land on thier…

  • Rally and Radiate

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    Here’s a diagram (click through it to view a larger version) that the founders of Biola kept close at hand when they needed to explain the variety of activities the early Bible Institute was engaged in. It’s a scratchy copy, and the graphic design isn’t great even by 1910 standards. But the message is exactly…

  • Thousands of Pages of New Trinitarian Theology

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    There are always books about the Trinity coming out, because it’s a perennially important doctrine. All roads in Christian theology lead to it in one way or another, and from this doctrine you can get to any other doctrine without taking too many steps. But in any given year, the two or three new Trinity…

  • Wesley & Puritan Spirituality

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    Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for Seedbed, the online resource center of Asbury Theological Seminary. I got a wonderful education at Asbury in the early 90s, and was glad to contribute a few thoughts to this high-volume resource center. Seedbed (one of the many good signs at Asbury since Tim Tennent took the…