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  • The Virtue of Tolerance

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    Adam Johnson
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    A virtue, in order to live up to its lofty title, must contain within itself its own proper resources for opposing the vice unique to it. As Aristotle taught us, virtues rarely travel alone; typically they wander the streets accompanied by distorted versions of themselves; the vices that carry the virtue in one extreme direction…

  • A Charge to Maintain Liberal Arts

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    Diane Vincent
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    A few weeks ago Biola had the delight of installing our new Provost and Senior Vice President, Dr. Deborah Taylor. Part of the installation involved a series of charges from faculty who had been invited to articulate some of the key challenges ahead of Dr. Taylor in her new role, from Biblical and missional fidelity…

  • Dogmatics Class for LATC17

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    Fred Sanders
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    In mid-January of 2017, the Los Angeles Theology Conference will bring a remarkable group of theologians to Biola University for a two-day discussion of “The Task of Dogmatics.” (Register before the end of November for the early registration discount.) Theology professors in southern California should consider doing what several of us have already gotten into…

  • Helpful Resources from Classical Trinitarianism

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    Fred Sanders
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    The theme for the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society this year is the Trinity, so you can imagine how many sessions there are that I’m eager to attend. There’s also an ongoing Trinitarian Theology Consultation at ETS, which does Trinity programming every year. For this year when the annual theme coincided with our…

  • “Preserving, of Course, the Properties of Each” (Beckwith)

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    Fred Sanders
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    There’s an ancient rule for talking about the triune God’s action in the world: the outward works of the Trinity are undivided (opera Trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt). It’s an important guideline that delivers you from thinking about three divine agents doing different things, which would be an odd thing for a monotheist to think. I wrote…

  • Voice of God, Text of Scripture

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today is the official release of the new book that Oliver Crisp and I edited, The Voice of God in the Text of Scripture: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (Zondervan, 2016). This book contains selected papers from the 2016 Los Angeles Theology Conference of the same name. Katya Covrett and the team at Zondervan Academic have once…

  • A Census of Triadic Occurrences (Rodrick Durst)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Dr. Rodrick Durst (Gateway Seminary of the West) recently published Reordering the Trinity: Six Movements of God in the New Testament (Kregel: 2015). I’ve never seen anything quite like this book. The title Reordering the Trinity sounds edgy, like Durst is going to claim something wildly novel; maybe claim that the Father proceeds from the…

  • Eusebius on Christ: “The Great Martyr”

    Eusebius on Christ: “The Great Martyr”

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    Adam Johnson
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    Martyrdom Martyrdom is a matter of finding oneself caught between an absolute and unyielding monotheism on the one hand (15, 39, 100), and an absolute and demonic claim to the contrary on the other. It is where we find ourselves forced to confess God at pain of death, or reject God to embrace a life…

  • But My Voice Has Gone Unheeded, Volume 7

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    Fred Sanders
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    I have this snarky little footnote on page 73 of my book The Triune God, that goes like this: I considered dialing back the Cassandra tone of this passage, but I ended up leaving it as you see it here. Does it sound too world-weary, jaded, or dour? Maybe. But I am here to tell…

  • The Triune God at ETS 2016

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    Fred Sanders
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    My book The Triune God (part of Zondervan’s New Studies in Dogmatics series) has an official release date of Dec 6, which is a few weeks after the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in mid-November. But here’s good news: Zondervan will have copies of The Triune God for sale at the conference. This…

  • When You Say You’re Not Voting

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    Fred Sanders
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    This election season, a lot of responsible people can be heard saying things like “I simply have no candidate,” or “I may not even vote.” And it’s more than just the usual laments that are always partly for comic effect (my favorites are “if God had meant for mankind to vote, he would have given…

  • Do I need a Job or Vocation?

    Do I need a Job or Vocation?

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    Greg Peters
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    Every year some untold numbers of students enter their senior year in colleges and universities across the nation. They’ve done it! They have successfully navigated the complexities of earning a bachelor’s degree in their chosen field of study. They have mastered the art of reading, listening, note-taking, test-taking, and essay-writing and demonstrated some amount of…