The Trinity: Impassible Love and Hate
A month before our son was born my wife came home from the baby shower with a gift even a father could love: two over-sized plush boxing gloves in the shape and color of Hulk’s famous fists. Smash those green…
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The Trinity: Impassibility and the Incarnation
Many of God’s attributes are denied these days by so-called Bible-believing Christians. Among these “questionable” attributes are divine simplicity which has been amply discussed on the Theology on the Go podcast. James Dolezal of Cairn University has been an indefatigable…
The Trinity: An Overview, Order in the Persons
An overview of the Trinity ought to include a variety of elements. The synopsis might begin with a statement concerning God’s incomprehensibility and our creaturely need for revelation. It ought to cover the doctrine of divine simplicity. God’s triunity should…
The Trinity: An Overview, Revealed by the Son
Why don’t we immediately see God the Holy Trinity jumping from the pages of Old Testament scripture? It is a sincere question a Muslim, a Jew and even a newer Christian all may ask. Reading the Old Testament by its…
Theology and Identity
The task of theology is multi-layered and multifaceted. Behind its obvious component of exploring the Bible’s teaching on the major doctrinal loci there are many other factors that influence the task and its outcome. At the most basic level there…
The Trinity: What’s Love Got to do with it?
Let me pose a question: while meditating on God are we sufficiently Trinitarian? I don’t mean do you believe in or confess the Trinity. Many would happily check the box marked “Trinity.” However, having confessed it, many of us quite…
The Trinity: God is Not an Undifferentiated Monad
Some years ago, J. Ligon Duncan, chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary, declared in a sermon at the historic First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS that God was “not an undifferentiated monad!” Precisely so. The God of Scripture is Triune: Father,…
The Trinity: A Doctrinal Summary
In the history of the Church her doctrines have been understood and organized through seven distinct yet interrelated topics or categories: Scripture, God, Man, Christ, Salvation, Church and Last Things. These distinct yet inseparably related doctrines reveal that the doctrine…
The Trinity: Divine Simplicity & the Trinity
I have a question for you. Can existence be separated from attributes? Perhaps a definition or two is in order. My guess is that you know what it means to exist. But what is an attribute? An attribute is a…
The Trinity: Why the Church Should Believe in God’s Simplicity
Why does my church – the mourning widow, the lustful high-school jock, the overworked dad, or the tired homeschooling mom – need to relish in the doctrine of God’s Simplicity? Why do I as a pastor have a duty to…