This article responds to and interacts with Kevin Giles who wrote in the same journal about his concerns with American evangelicals' view of the Trinity and in particular the "subordination of the Son" to the Father. This article acknowledges some valuable criticisms made by Giles and his defense of the full equality of the trinitarian persons opposing hierarchical relations.
This article discusses the biblical view of the Lord's Supper, related it to the Passover feast, as well as to the death and resurrection of Christ. The author focuses on the relevance of passages like John 6:47-58 together with others.
Did the theological heirs of John Calvin deviate from their heritage? Was Calvin’s dynamic biblical theology lost by his successors? Was the philosophical methodology of Aristotle introduced into Reformed theology by Theodore Beza and Zacharias Ursinus? This chapter considers these criticisms as they were applied in particular to the tradition of the Westminster Standards. T. F.
This is a volume on believers’ union with Christ. Letham argues that union with God is founded in the very being of God as Trinity and relational. Man being made in the image of God reflects this characteristic. First Letham looks at the Trinitarian basis of creation. Next he notes the role of the Son of God as the mediator of creation. Man as one created in Christ is to be recognized as image of God.
How do we explain the Trinity? Or how does one understand the statement, "God is one being in three persons"? These are the different questions that this article attempts to answer in detail on the relation between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
This essay introduces the church’s faith in God as Trinity. Letham first reflects on potential problems for a trinitarian theology. Next he deals with potential benefits of recovering a rigorous faith in the Triune God.
The Bible should be applied to all of life. However, as this article explains, to do proper biblical application three fallacies must be avoided: liberalism, pietism, and fundamentalism. All these limit the application of Scripture.
