The Scriptorium Daily

Category: Theology

  • “To Him Belongs the Consummation of Things”

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    Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical-Practical Theology (volume 2, chapter 27) has an excellent treatment of the Holy Spirit. I just want to unpack a little something he says in the introductory paragraph, before he gets to the main body of the pneumatology (in parts exegetical, dogmatic, elenctic, and practical). Here’s a little picture of the Latin,…

  • Polanus: Reformed Scholastic Piety and Commentary

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    Fred Sanders
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    Having worked through Amandus Polanus’ axiomata on the Trinity, Ryan Hurd and I invited a guest, Dr. Ryan McGraw, to talk with us about his own encounters with the writings of Polanus. This conversation covers a few topic: First, we wanted to recommend Dr. McGraw’s 2019 book Reformed Scholasticism: Recovering the Tools of Reformed Theology,…

  • Ephesians (Classical Theology Course)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Talbot School of Theology’s Master of Arts in Classical Theology is mostly composed of three kinds of courses: Commonplaces (major doctrines); Master Practitioners (significant theologians); and Sacred Page (books of Scripture). Since the entire MA is designed to treat Scripture as “that toward which all studies in divinity move,” these Sacred Page courses are especially…

  • Shraga Weil’s Ram in the Thicket

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    Shraga Weil (1918-2009) was an Israeli painter who also did a lot of printmaking throughout his artistic career. I know he made prints because late in 2020 I came across one of them in an antique store at a deep discount price, and my family got it for me as a Christmas gift. This blog…

  • Christmas Trinity

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    Fred Sanders
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    Here’s something I wrote for Christmas 2020. I composed it to work best as a Twitter thread, and I’m not sure if it works as well as a blog post. But I wanted to make it available here at a more stable location for the non-Twitter readers. Christmas Trinity: Only the Son is incarnate, but…

  • “The Holy Spirit Teaches us to Die Faithfully.”

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    Dr. Ephraim Radner delivered a memorable paper at the 2020 Los Angeles Theology Conference last January. Those of us in the audience were struck by the depth and honesty of what he shared that day about how the modern world has come to think about the Holy Spirit. Fortunately, his paper has now been published…

  • Adding Eternal Generation

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    Fred Sanders
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    The publication of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology, Second Edition presents an opportunity to consider the difference the doctrine of eternal generation can make in trinitarian theology. The opportunity arises from the fact that Grudem denied eternal generation in the first edition, but affirms it in the second. That’s a big change. The widely used first…

  • Christomorphic Pneumatology

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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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…