Category Trinity
Not the Binity But the Trinity: The Holy Spirit’s Place in the Life of God
The Holy Spirit, unless you’re a Pentecostal or Charismatic, is often left in the background somewhere in theological discussion. Never mind that John Calvin has been called the ‘theologian of the Spirit’ or the fact that Colin Gunton made great appeal to the Spirit in his doctrine of creation, or that folks like my friend […]
A Disjointed Blog Post on the Ontological and Economic Trinity, Something of a Teaser
I wrote a whole spate of posts when the Eternal Functional Subordination (EFS) was happening online; as did others. But I thought I would revisit this issue, although not directly, by engaging with something two contemporary Dutch theologians have written on eternal generation and the doctrine of the Trinity. I would have to say, out […]
Doctrine of God: Let There Be No Daylight Between the Being and Persons of God. Kooi and Brink
As I underscored and wrote upon how the Being (ousia) of God has been separated from the Persons (hypostases) of God in many medieval and Post Reformed orthodox treatments of the doctrine of God in my personal chapter for our volume one Evangelical Calvinism book, I am happy to see that Cornelius van der Kooi […]
No God Behind the Back of Jesus: God is Love not an UnMoved Mover
I don’t know about you, but as a North American evangelical, growing up, I was taught and given the impression, theologically, that God is somewhat performance driven; i.e. that he is concerned with me keeping his law in order for me to maintain fellowship with him (a quid pro quo type of relationship). Don’t get […]
A Gospel Statement on the Trinity by Thomas Torrance
Thomas Torrance provides a rich statement on the Gospel situated in the Triune life of God: While the Lord Jesus Christ constitutes the pivotal centre of our knowledge of God, God’s distinctive self-revelation as Holy Trinity, One Being, Three Persons, creates the overall framework within which all Christian theology is to be formulated. Understandably, therefore, […]
The Sina Qua Non of the Gospel, The Trinity
The Holy Trinity is the absolute ground and grammar of all epistemology, theology, and worship; so says our thesis one from chapter fifteen in our volume one Evangelical Calvinism book. Torrance beautifully illustrates this in what he writes below: While the Lord Jesus Christ constitutes the pivotal centre of our knowledge of God, God’s distinctive […]
What Hath Johann Philipp Gabler to do with Bruce Ware and Wayne Grudem and the EFS Debate?
The recent online debate in regard to the so called eternal functional subordination (EFS) of the Son to the Father in an ostensible eternal Father-Son authority-submission framework has lost ‘some’ steam it seems in the theoblogosphere (I think personally I wrote approx. eleven posts on the topic in a span of about three weeks). That […]
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