Category: Theology

Hebrews is a book of the Bible for people in hard times. Should you read it now, or later? In terms of the book’s actual background, we don’t know much for certain about the situation of those who first heard these words. There are dark suggestions of hardship in a few verses of chapter 10:…

As my colleague Fred Sanders noted last week, leading evangelical theologian Donald Bloesch passed away on August 24. Though Fred has already offered an in memoriam on Scriptorium, I feel compelled to do so too. Why? Well, Donald Bloesch was a friend of mine. Don (as he insisted on being called) and I finally met…

Last week I got to speak in Biola chapel, as part of a faculty series on the first chapter of John’s gospel. It’s a thirty-minute sermon, and you can view it at Biola’s video chapel archive. It’s always a blast to speak to the Biola community,and this series on John is very well designed, with…

My book on the Trinity is officially released today: The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. Here’s a thought based on the book, though I don’t put it exactly this way there. A lot of Bible-believing Christians have trouble seeing the doctrine of the Trinity in Scripture. They see a verse here…

Donald Bloesch, evangelical theologian, died this week. He was a unique figure in twentieth-century theology, and now that he has passed from the scene, what strikes me about his work is his noble isolation. I don’t mean that he was personally lonely: by all reports he sustained many close friendships, and inspired long-term loyalty and…

I recently wrote a book about the Trinity, after a couple of decades of thinking hard about it. In those 20 years, I’ve read a lot, and pondered a lot, and changed my mind about a few things. I’ve discovered that there are some questions without answers, and some things we can’t know. But I’ve…

August 31, 2010, is the official release date for my new book, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. It ought to be on bookshelves by then. But you can already order it now straight from the publisher, Crossway, or put it on pre-order at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or CBD. Matt…