Category Archives: Trinity
Salvation for the unevangelised (4)
I reckon the most common suggestion put forward for how the unevangelised might come to salvation is that God will somehow use general revelation to reach them. Texts often used to outline the concept of general revelation include Romans 1:20, … Continue reading
Colossians 1:15 and everything
One of the implications of Colossians 1:15 (my text this sunday) is that we need to co-ordinate our knowledge of everything with our knowledge of Christ. More than that, in fact, we need to come to Christ if we want … Continue reading
God is really who he appears to be
Robert Jensen’s article in this volume was fun reading. Here’s a couple of quotes I took from it in preparation for this. “… the function which trinitarian theology [as as part of the church's address to the world]… is to … Continue reading
More God quotes
I’m sticking these quotes up on here because I found them during my reading for a recent course our church went through (more details HERE or HERE). This set come from this unpublished essay on the Trinity by Jonathan Edwards … Continue reading
Doctrine of God quotes
We recently did a mid-week course looking at some basics of the doctrine of God, with a particular focus on covering the elemental features of the doctrine of the Trinity (see HERE for links to the mp3s). I read a … Continue reading
trinity, community, apologetics
Just knocking some half-formed thoughts around… Is there is a link between Monadic conceptions of God (God the undifferentiated One) and rationalistic/ ‘evidentialist’ apologetics? Why do I ask? Because there’s a clear link between the Trinity and the church as … Continue reading
The One and the Many…
What’s the single best thing you’ve ever read on the Trinity? I’m currently getting my stuff in order for a three-week doctrine of God course we’re going to be running in early 2010. As preparatory reading I’ve ear-marked Frame, and … Continue reading
Friday Calvin: Trinity
First, a relatively simple definition: ‘But God also designates himself by another special mark to distinguish himself more precisely from idols. For he so proclaims himself the sole God as to offer himself to be contemplated clearly in three persons.’ … Continue reading
