In this episode, Fred Sanders and I discuss the Trinity and how the Scripture speaks of the Trinity.
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Fred Sanders is a theologian who focuses on the doctrine of the Trinity. Since 1999 he has taught in Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute, an undergraduate great books program. He and his wife Susan have two adult children and are members of Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada. Fred is the author of The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything (Crossway, 2010), and The Triune God (Zondervan, 2016).
Indeed, Wyatt — I embraced a conversation like this one partially because the scriptural feed is perhaps more abundant than all credos put together — one cannot miss it.
Thus the Trinity is more than a credo, it is the credo. And even initiates can grasp the concept/facts without much effort.
What remains are the persistant harnessing of ideas until we establish what — a programmed collection that we can rest our theological hats on as virtually scriopture?
God through His Son may have told us everything we need to know up until His departure, but there was more —
John 16:12..I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come..
Perhaps it’s a bit idealistic on my part, but it would seem a desperately needed engagement with God is more importaznt than anything I have ever needed. Of course, the teaching method that many of your guest’s employ is very useful for scholarship based on straight accurate thinking as we develop our minds in the process.
We can say the Apostle’s Creed is very useful but I would not want to give Catholicism a glorifying wedge.
The two books Sanders recommends here are fantastic: Robert Letham’s Holy Trinity is the best long-treatment I’ve read and Reeve’s Delighting in the Trinity is phenomenal for a short read.