Lecture - Fred Sanders (The Triune God of the Bible: Seeing the Trinity in Scripture)

Lecture by Fred Sanders - October 20, 2018

"The Triune God of the Bible: Seeing the Trinity in Scripture"

The doctrine of the Trinity is a classic, ancient, and central piece of Christian theology. When the church fathers and councils honed this doctrine, they did so in the firm conviction that it was biblical. They believed that God had revealed himself as the Trinity in Scripture. In this lecture, Fred Sanders presents the biblical case for affirming that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, showing the lines of biblical reasoning that developed into the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. Often the biblical evidence for Trinitarianism is presented bit by bit, from one verse to another. This lecture instead emphasizes the big picture, especially the way the Old and New Testaments work together to bring out the doctrine.

Lecture by Fred Sanders
Professor of Systemic Theology
Biola University, La Mirada, CA

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Bio info:

Fred Sanders is a systematic theologian interested in the entire range of Christian doctrine, but with a special focus on the doctrine of the Trinity. He is a Professor of Theology in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola (Biblical Institute of Los Angeles) University, where he has taught since 1999. He earned his B.A. degree at Murray State University in 1990 and his M.Div. degree at Asbury Theological Seminary in 1995. He completed his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, in 2001.

He is the author of many articles and several books, including Dr. Doctrine’s Christian Comix (1999), The Image of the Immanent Trinity: Rahner’s Rule and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (2005), Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology (2007), The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything (2010), John Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love (2013), How God Used R. A. Torrey: A Short Biography as Told Through His Sermons (2015), The Triune God (2016), Theology in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic (forthcoming), and Blessed Trinity: An Approach to the Doctrine of God and Salvation (forthcoming). In addition, he has coedited 7 volumes, the most recent being Retrieving Eternal Generation (2017), with Scott Swain. He also serves as contributing editor for Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture and Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care
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Fred is a member of Grace Evangelical Free Church of La Mirada, and lives in La Mirada with his wife Susan and their two children.