Author: Fred Sanders

You know what Paul says a lot in First Thessalonians? “You know.” It’s not the theme of the letter, but it’s the refrain. One of the main things Paul wants to say is that there’s a lot he doesn’t have to say. He points over and over to what can be presupposed as already known:…

In 1864, Scottish theologian Robert Candlish gave a series of lectures in Edinburgh on the theology of the Fatherhood of God. As he ended those lectures, he said “I do so with the feeling that, however inadequately I have handled my great theme, I have at least thrown out some suggestive thoughts, and in the…

Though it happened on November 11 of 2010, I just learned of the passing of English Dominican scholar Edmund Hill. Fergus Kerr, O.P. wrote a good obituary of him here. He had a long and eventful teaching career in South Africa (where he made himself persona non grata by criticizing the Apartheid policy) and at…

So I confess, I’ve got my browser’s home page set up with an automated blog search on my name. What that means is that every time I load my homepage, it uses the power of Google to see if anybody’s writing about me anywhere. It’s a vanity Google search, but having it automatically performed by…

For the next several weeks, I’ll be teaching a Sunday School class on the Trinity by leading discussions of my book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. We’ll be studying one chapter per week, and I’ll be producing a study guide for the class as we go. The heart of the…

The new issue of Christianity Today has a nice, long review of The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. Guess what: They like it, give it five stars, and recommend that you ought to drop everything and go buy multiple copies right now. Well, that last part might be between the lines,…

Trinitarian Evangelicalism From Days of Old, entry #3,827 in an endless series: Joseph Irons (1785-1852) and his hymns: WE sing the FATHER’s love– We trust the SAVIOUR’s grace; The HOLY SPIRIT’s power we prove, Amidst the chosen race. We give the FATHER praise– We glorify the SON– We bless the SPIRIT for his grace, Which…

Look at the nifty quotes that are being passed around Twitter lately, from my book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything: A set of statements from the bottom of page 106, which sound better to me when somebody else tweets them at me than they did when I wrote them: A…

Justin Taylor recently made the post-to-end-all-posts about Bible reading plans; he has links there for just about every kind of approach you can imagine. Too many options? No. A vacuum cleaner salesman once told me that out of all the vacuums on the market, the best one is the one you will actually use on…