My book Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love is due out in just a few months (August 2013), and is already available for pre-order at Amazon. Crossway’s fine copy-editor has finalized the text with me, and I’ll be checking page proofs soon. I’m also gathering a few endorsements from generous theologians [...]

Matt Jenson and Fred Sanders are discussing the recent book on the doctrine of the Trinity by Stephen R. Holmes, The Quest for the Trinity. In part 1, we set up Holmes’ project and his approach. In this installment, we discuss what he says about the history of the doctrine (chapters 3-8). In these core [...]

The Trinity was forgotten for a period of “centuries of doctrinal tragedy,” until suddenly in the middle of the twentieth century, theologians rediscovered it. Several decades after that ecumenical rediscovery, evangelical theologians are finally catching up. “So goes the standard story,” say Daniel Treier and David Lauber, the editors of Trinitarian Theology for the Church (IVP, 2009), but they [...]

The Spring issue of Credo magazine has a great set of articles on the doctrine of the Trinity. The whole 75-page issue is free online, well designed, and brilliantly edited. Scott Swain on “the mystery of the Trinity,” Mike Reeves on “why a triune  God is better than any other,” and Robert Letham on “how [...]

We had a blast talking through Tom McCall’s Forsaken a few months ago and thought we’d do the same with Stephen Holmes’ recent book on the Trinity, published in the US as The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity (IVP Academic, 2012) and in the UK as The Holy Trinity: [...]

Everybody knows about the magazine called Credo, right? It’s a newish (started 2011) quarterly that is made available for free online (via issuu or pdf). Each issue is elaborately designed and in full color, and the content so far has been excellent. Matthew Barrett of California Baptist University is the executive editor, and he and [...]

My church hosted a great event last week, an Easter walk with a multi-station dramatic telling of the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection. It helped set up our congregational experience of Holy Week, and the church also produced and handed out two small devotional booklets for daily readings to do through the week. One [...]