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On mission with God: Living Sent 25 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
Ed Stetzer Recently on The Exchange blog, missiologist Ed Stetzer summarized a Trinitarian theological perspective on mission. His post was titled "What Mission is and Why it Matters." Here are excer...
Concerning dialectic theology 19 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
The trinitarian theology of Karl Barth, T.F. Torrance and others is sometimes referred to as "dialectic theology" or "dialectical theology," meaning that it integrates into one what might seem at firs...
Ray Anderson on the two narratives 12 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
Check out this short GCI video with Ray Anderson discussing how a narrative/trinitarian theology helpfully frames pastoral ministry:
Participation not imitation 6 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
In Bone of His Bone, Going Beyond the Imitation of Christ, missionary F.J. Huegel notes that our calling as Christians is not to imitate Christ but to participate in Christ. The distinction between "...
OT law--what is its role for Christians? 29 Jul 2013 | 06:46 am
In the Christianity Today article "Learning to Love Leviticus," Christopher J.H. Wright notes that to understand the nature and purpose of God's law, we must address several key contextual issues: Go...
Love God and Do What You Want 22 Jul 2013 | 03:24 pm
Trinitarian theologian Paul Metzger (pictured at left) recently gave a sermon entitled "Love God and Do What You Want." The context of his sermon was a conference discussing the calling that Christia...
Spiritual formation precedes mission 15 Jul 2013 | 06:07 am
An axiom of our Trinitarian, incarnational faith is that God does what God is. Said another way, Holy Scripture teaches that there is no disjunction between God's doing and his being. For example, Go...
Marty Folsom: living within God's relating life 8 Jul 2013 | 03:26 pm
In the short video below, trinitarian theologian Dr. Marty Folsom talks about twin realities that are the basis of his understanding of trinitarian theology: that the triune God exists in relationshi...
Colyer on Torrance: the error of dualism 27 Jun 2013 | 07:01 pm
Elmer Colyer As noted by Elmer Colyer in How to Read T.F. Torrance... Torrance believes that the church has had to struggle repeatedly with the problem of dualism.... Dualism connotes the division o...
On journey with Jesus 22 Jun 2013 | 12:03 am
The disciplemaking pathway Scripture, viewed through the lens of a Trinitarian, incarnational theology, tells us that by God's grace, all humanity is on journey with Jesus. Those who trust Jesus foll...
