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  • The Blessing of Trinity Sunday

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    I got invited to preach on Trinity Sunday (May 26, 2013) at Redeemer Church of La Mirada, a church just down the road a bit,  where a lot of my friends and colleagues attend. The sermon is available for download at their website for the time being, and I’ll see if I can figure out…

  • A History of the Trinity (Holmes pt. 1)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this three-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. We had a blast talking through Tom McCall’s Forsaken a few months ago and thought we’d do the same with Stephen Holmes’ recent book on the Trinity, published in the US as The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in…

  • Credo: Trinity Issue

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    Fred Sanders
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    Everybody knows about the magazine called Credo, right? It’s a newish (started 2011) quarterly that is made available for free online (via issuu or pdf). Each issue is elaborately designed and in full color, and the content so far has been excellent. Matthew Barrett of California Baptist University is the executive editor, and he and…

  • The Trinity in Gender Debates

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    Fred Sanders
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    Trinity and Gender Roles: A Nice and Hot Dispute The evangelical debate about gender roles may seem like an unlikely venue for hashing out trinitarian theology, but that is what has been going on in the last few years. Everybody knows that evangelical complementarians and evangelical egalitarians have competing views of the relationship between men…

  • Wrath of the Trinity (Forsaken pt. 2)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. More discussion of Tom McCall’s book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters, from Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson of Biola’s Torrey Honors Institute. In his second chapter, McCall considers the question, “Did the death of…

  • The Broken Trinity (Forsaken pt. 1)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Tom McCall’s recent Forsaken:  The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters (IVP, 2012—thanks to IVP for a copy!) is a very stimulating little book. Its four short chapters (just 165 pages total) are a series of focused…

  • Sermon: The Trinity as Surprise Ending

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    Fred Sanders
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    Last weekend I guest preached at Del Rey Church, on the Trinity. The sermon is available online, and you can view it below or at their site (where you can also download the audio). I’m warning you, it’s 50 minutes long (pastor Matt Jones has that congregation prepped for substantial sermons!) and it’s only on one…

  • Readings on the Trinity (Class Outline)

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    Fred Sanders
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    This is the book list, with short annotations, for a class I teach on the Trinity from time to time here at Biola. There’s more to a class than just the book list, of course: our classroom work is all Socratic discussion, and during the semester we spend some time on supplementary topics like the…

  • The Trinity: Yes, A Doctrine About God

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    Fred Sanders
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      Today was Trinity Sunday, as observed by churches who follow the western liturgical calendar. There wasn’t always a Trinity Sunday, and even when (well into the middle ages) it was proposed, some popes argued against it on the grounds that (a) feast days are supposed to commemorate events, not doctrines, and (b) every Sunday…

  • The Economic Trinity Communicates the Immanent Trinity

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    Fred Sanders
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    When Kevin Vanhoozer intervenes in the recent discussion of the doctrine of God, he does so by making several strategic moves. But the move behind them all is his insistence that we’ve got to get the doctrine of the Trinity right. And “getting it right” means describing the relationship between the economic and immanent Trinity…

  • Experiencing the Trinity (with Wesley)

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Wesley only preached one sermon with the word “Trinity” in the title, but don’t let that fool you: he is a great guide to living out the mystery of evangelical trinitarianism. His approach to the Christian life is saturated with the insight that in everything we do, we are surrounded by the work and…

  • No Trinity Verse: Still a Good Thing

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    Fred Sanders
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    Earlier this year I had a one-page piece about the Trinity in Biola Magazine. My goal was to show that the doctrine of the Trinity is a biblical doctrine, and my hook was to begin by conceding that all the elements of trinitarianism are not all brought together in one verse, and then to show…