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  • The Trinitarian Theology of Bill Bright

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    Fred Sanders
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    I have argued that “evangelical Christians have been in reality the most thoroughly Trinitarian Christians in the history of the church.” It’s a cheeky thing to say (the review in Christianity Today called the claim “a strong one, but… not capricious”), I suppose, since it doesn’t map onto current evangelical self-understanding. But I tried to…

  • Think Bigger: There's Not a "Trinity Verse" –and That's a Good Thing

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    Fred Sanders
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    In the current (Winter 2011) issue of Biola Magazine, I’ve got a brief article that describes the Biblical case for the doctrine of the Trinity. Here’s the intro: The Trinity is a biblical doctrine, but let’s admit it: There’s something annoying about how hard it is to put your finger on a verse that states…

  • Y'Know, For the Thessalonians

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    Fred Sanders
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    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:…

  • Reclaimed: The Theology of Adoption

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    Fred Sanders
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    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…

  • Edmund Hill (1923-2010)

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    Fred Sanders
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    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…

  • Augustine's Confessions for Middle Schoolers

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    Fred Sanders
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    Shaun Williams runs Williams Great Books Tutorials here in southern California. That means she leads young people through classic texts, the kind of books that have instructed, challenged, and baffled generations of the greatest adult minds in history. And somehow, it works! These are books that you can learn from all through your life, and…

  • The Vanity Google and Your Inevitable Obituary

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    Fred Sanders
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    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…

  • A Letter to My Freshmen

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    Matt Jenson
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    To My Freshmen: Okay, so that may be premature. We’ve only just met, after all. Five months ago you were a sea of undifferentiated faces only loosely attached to names (but great names—names like Bustos and Magness, Tonti and Duarte, Mendelson, Zilka, and Van Vlear). To call you ‘my’ freshmen presupposes a kind of possession…

  • Review of Harrison's God's Many-Splendored Image

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    Greg Peters
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    In the past dozen years or so evangelicals have been recovering the early Christian tradition thanks to books like D. H. William’s Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants and Bryan Litfin’s Getting to Know the Church Fathers. In one sense Nonna Verna Harrison’s recent book God’s Many-Splendored Image: Theological Anthropology…

  • Mostly Right, Partly Wrong

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    Fred Sanders
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    The first 2011 issue of The Examined Life from Wheatstone Academy is online now, and it includes several things that Scriptorium readers are likely to be interested in. John Mark Reynolds has a piece about what he learned from Plato’s Phaedrus (and, as he says, could have learned from the Bible). There are essays, updates,…

  • Evangelicals, the Gospel, and the Trinity (Study Guide for The Deep Things of God, Introduction)

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    Fred Sanders
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    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 Necessary Backdrop for Everything Evangelicals Emphasize:" Deep Things in Christianity Today

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    Fred Sanders
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    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,…