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SIMPLY TRINITY: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit
MATTHEW BARRETT with Foreword by Scott Swain
"Simply Trinity demonstrates how much is at stake in the trinitarian debates that have recently roiled the evangelical community. I recommend it highly."--Thomas S. Kidd, professor at Baylor University; blogger at The Gospel Coalition
To truly know God, we must understand God as Trinity. But what if the Trinity we've been taught is not the Trinity of the Bible?
In this groundbreaking book, Matthew Barrett reveals a shocking discovery: we have manipulated the Trinity, re-creating the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our own image. With clarity and creativity, Barrett mines the Scriptures as well as the creeds and confessions of the faith to help us rediscover the beauty, simplicity, and majesty of our triune God. What we believe about the Trinity also has untold consequences for salvation and the Christian life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Scott Swain
1. Trinity Drift
PART 1: HOW DID WE DRIFT AWAY?
2. Can we Trust the God of our Fathers? Retrieving Biblical Orthodoxy
3. Since When Did the Trinity Get Social? The Manipulated Trinity
PART 2: HOW WE FIND OUR WAY HOME?
4. How Does God Reveal Himself as Trinity? Eternity and the Mystery of the Gospel
5. Why Must God Be One to Be Three? Simply Trinity
6. Is the Son Begotten from the Father? Paternity and Filiation, Part 1
7. Is Eternal Generation Central to the Gospel? Paternity and Filiation, Part 2
8. Is the Son Eternally Subordinate to the Father? A Son Worthy of Worship
9. Is the Spirit Spirated? Spiration
10. Do Father, Son, and Spirit Work Inseparably? Communion with the Indivisible Trinity
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
"Matthew Barrett has the evangelical instinct for classic, time-tested, deeply traditional biblical teaching about the Trinity. . . . Simply Trinity proclaims the good news of the unmanipulated doctrine of the triune God."--Fred Sanders, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University
"Readers are led away from the rocks of those who have sought to convince us that biblical, classic trinitarian theology needs radical change, and into the calm, wide sea that is the Christian community's historic faith."--Lewis Ayres, Durham University
"The Trinity is one of the Bible's more challenging doctrines, and yet Matthew Barrett ably guides readers through the issues to present clear and cogent teaching. He opens the treasures of the past and draws on patristic, medieval, Reformation, and contemporary theologians to explain the doctrine of the Trinity. But he also usefully shows where some have gone astray and charitably speaks the truth in love. People would do well to read this book and plumb the depths of the Bible's teaching on the nature of our triune God." --J. V. Fesko, professor of systematic and historical theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS
"Matthew Barrett offers a sane and sober recovery of the church's exegesis of Scripture and defends the Christian doctrine of the Trinity against its unwitting saboteurs."--Michael F. Bird, Ridley College
"I was blown away by this book, a clear, powerful intervention into trinitarian controversy. The critique of evangelical subordinationists alone is fantastic, and no attentive reader should miss their connections with social trinitarianism. Evangelical theology is in serious trouble, and I think many of us have known that for years, but this book will be impossible to ignore. We simply must turn this trend around or evangelicalism will lose its hold on the gospel." --Craig Carter, Tyndale University
"Simply Trinity will help nudge readers to a more scriptural and historically orthodox formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity; it will also help in doing the same for the various attributes of God. If you are interested in what Scripture teaches about God and Trinity, how the early creeds of Christianity formulated Scripture's teaching into creedal statements, and how many in our day have left the old paths on this issue, this book is for you." --Richard Barcellos, Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA; IRBS Theological Seminary, Mansfield TX
MATTHEW BARRETT is associate professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of None Greater; Canon, Covenant, and Christology; and God's Word Alone. He is also the executive editor of Credo magazine and the host of the Credo podcast.
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