“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” 2 Corinthians 13.14 B. B. Warfield long ago observed that the apostolic writings do not develop but rather presuppose the doctrine of the Trinity. The New Testament is not evidence of a transitional […]
Pushback on the pushback
Over at First Things Peter Leithart recently posted some comments on Gijsbert van den Brink’s article in the July issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Therein, van den Brink addresses recent lack of enthusiasm in academic theology for “social trinitarianism,” i.e., the belief that “Father, Son and Holy Spirit might best be conceived of as three distinct and […]
“Great kindness; great mercy”: Augustine on adoption
Augustine’s second homily on the Gospel of John offers one of the richest commentaries on John 1.12 that I have read. His explanation of what it means for God to give us “the right to become children of God” is worth quoting in full: “What did he bestow on them? Great kindness; great mercy. Singly born, he […]
The Quest for the Trinity
Book Review: The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity by Stephen R. Holmes In Stephen R. Holmes’s The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity, we have a book that is sweet to the taste but bitter to the stomach. Though Holmes’s learned […]
