GIVEAWAY It's so important (!) to be part of a church dedicated to doctrine. Reformation Day is almost here. I pray *The Reformation as Renewal* equips you to retrieve your doctrinal roots from the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. LIKE. RETREWEET. Win all these books

To celebrate Reformation month I am giving away Reformation Theology: A Systematic Summary @crossway Includes a prologue by Michael Horton and a whole team of contributors like Scott Swain, Carl Trueman, Michael Allen, JV Fesko, and many more. Follow. Like. RETWEET. to win!

I am leaving Midwestern and the SBC. I am becoming Anglican. Here's why 🔽. Our family is so happy. matthewbarrett.substack.com/…

To celebrate the Reformation I am giving away The Five Solas series @ZonderAcademic May these books kindle your devotion to God’s glory, dependency on his grace, faith in his only begotten Son, and trust in his sacred scriptures. To win, Like and Retweet.

My book releases today! The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church @ZonderAcademic GIVEAWAY Win my book plus… Solas series, 5 volumes Michael Horton’s 2 volumes on Justification LIKE. FOLLOW. RETWEET amazon.com/Reformation-Renew…

GIVEAWAY @ZonderAcademic is giving away my new book, The Reformation as Renewal, plus all these books: Michael Allen. Fred Sanders Carl Trueman. And three books on Dogmatics. LIKE. FOLLOW. RETWEET. amzn.to/3CrGdlW

Friends, exciting news! @BakerAcademic has asked me to write a SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY Please pray for me as I write. My aim: to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds. To eavesdrop on my research subscribe to my new substack: matthewbarrett.substack.com/

When a church does not have a robust liturgy, those who suffer the most are the children. They conclude that church is a performance on stage they watch, not a gospel they *participate* in. It's a matter of time before they grow up disenchanted with Christianity.

GIVEAWAY The Reformation as Renewal releases in only three weeks! This book is a crucial corrective to a historical tradition that has lost its sense of self. -Bruce Gordon, Yale FOLLOW. LIKE. RETWEET. …win amazon.com/Reformation-Renew…

GIVEAWAY The Reformation as Renewal is out! To celebrate @ZonderAcademic is giving away a copy, plus all these books: Michael Allen. Christopher Holmes. @FredFredSanders. Kevin Vanhoozer. Matthew Levering. LIKE. FOLLOW. RETWEET. amzn.to/3CrGdlW

To celebrate the Reformation I’m giving away The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls @crossway 900 pages on Justification! Foreword by DA Carson. 25 authors, from Steve Dempster to Brandon Crowe, from David VanDrunen to JV Fesko, and more. Follow. Like. RETWEET. Win.

To celebrate sola scriptura for Reformation month I am giving away these three books to one winner! God’s Word Alone @ZonderAcademic Canon, Covenant and Christology @ivpacademic John Owen on the Christian Life (w/ it’s chap on the word) @crossway Follow. Like. RETWEET. Win.

🎉GIVEAWAY 🎉 Today *On Classical Trinitarianism* @ivpacademic releases! Over 4O Theologians retrieving Nicaea. amzn.to/3ztB4vO Win this copy! LIKE. FOLLOW. RETWEET. Here are a few endorsements: "One will be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive explanation of trinitarian doctrine than this collection of essays. Matthew Barrett has assembled a prestigious team of scholars to explain what the Trinity is and why it still matters. On Classical Trinitarianism is an outstanding achievement in modern scholarship on the Christian doctrine of God." -@mbird12 Michael Bird, deputy principal at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia and author of A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts "On Classical Trinitarianism is a breathtaking accomplishment. An astonishing array of contributions maps the field of trinitarian theology—historical, dogmatic, and polemical. The forty chapters, written by prominent theologians from each of three major branches of the church, are a major refutation of the so-called revival of the Trinity in twentieth-century theology. This publication is a serious, in-depth reassertion of classical Nicene theology over against the recent onslaught of social trinitarianism with its rationally comprehensible and compositional (and, often, subordinationist) view of the Trinity. Anyone attempting a return to the social trinitarianism of the previous century will have to reckon with Matthew Barrett's major accomplishment in this volume." -Hans Boersma, the Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Wisconsin "Evangelical retrieval of classical trinitarianism is a vital project. This massive resource represents various approaches and levels of polemical intensity along with a core set of convictions. I can't believe I read the whole thing! But its many fine essays convey valuable insights, sound some necessary alarms, and pose enduring questions." -Daniel J. Treier, Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Theology and PhD program director at Wheaton College "This admirable book makes the rediscovery of trinitarian theology truly exciting. After showing the struggles of the early Fathers for an adequate terminology to express the mystery of the Trinity, it carefully traces the history of the doctrine. The book also provides a healthy corrective to the many ways that contemporary theology has strayed from the tradition of Nicaea." -Michael J. Dodds, OP, professor of theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California "With a wide variety of historical, dogmatic, and critical essays, this book invites and equips its readers to join the revival of classical trinitarian theism." -Michael Gorman, professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America "Like a meteor on the scene of contemporary theology, Matthew Barrett's edited volume, On Classical Trinitarianism, makes a big impression. Physically, it is a massive book, full of hefty articles by many of the world's leading theologians. Intellectually, it is an equally massive response to recent innovations in the doctrine of God—from social trinitarianism to eternal functional subordinationism—in favor of orthodox trinitarian theology and its attendant doctrine of divine simplicity. It is also a reminder of the importance of thinking with ecclesial tradition and of the corresponding dangers, when talking about the profoundest of mysteries, of trying to think about God apart from it—lest even Christians forget that they are trinitarian monotheists and that God is simply Father, Son, and Spirit." -John Betz, associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame "Matthew Barrett's remarkable collection shows evangelicalism getting its doctrinal house in order, but its importance also lies well outside evangelicalism as an ecumenical collection: in authorship, mood, method, and—most of all—common confession of the Nicene faith. Everything we could wish for is here in abundance: attention to the Bible, history, doctrine, texts, figures, and vocabulary. Like some collection of glorious music or poetry offered on the anniversary of a beloved monarch as a 'garland,' On Classical Trinitarianism is a magnificent garland in honor of the Nicene Creed after seventeen centuries." -@AP_Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford "This is a marvelous primer on the church's historic understanding of the Trinity. Its topics and authors have been very well chosen. May God use it to renew our discipleship today, growing everyone who reads it in the knowledge and love of God." -Douglas A. Sweeney, dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University "On Classical Trinitarianism is the most significant text published this year, if not this century. While a trinitarian renaissance certainly began in the twentieth century, distinctly modern and postmodern echoes of ancient heresies arose to challenge believers who seek to restate with integrity for our day 'the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints' (Jude 1:3). The scholars herein, wisely gathered by Matthew Barrett, not only represent a wide spectrum of Christian tradition but offer deep studies into orthodoxy's exegetical and historical basis and helpfully describe the contours of this indispensable dogma. Renewing our understanding of God the Trinity so that we may worship him truly and confess him properly will be the best way to celebrate the signal accomplishment of Nicaea. So, please, take up and read!" -@MusingsOnChrist Malcolm Yarnell, research professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "On Classical Trinitarianism presents not a 'Nicene option' but the Nicene necessity . Against the revisionism of some of the most popular trinitarian theologians of the last fifty years, a team of mature theologians makes the definitive case that Nicaea's trinitarian theology is materially necessary for a biblical, evangelical, catholic, and orthodox faith. This is the best kind of polemic—one in which the positive vision outshines the object of critique." Matt Jenson, professor of theology at Torrey Honors College at Biola University "Matthew Barrett has compiled the perfect guest list of authors to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. This is the perfect textbook for learning the biblical and trinitarian grammar of God—and for learning why retrieving classical trinitarianism matters more than ever." -@VanhoozerKevin, research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School "The essays in this collection, individually and collectively, offer a comprehensive account of that fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, the mystery of the Trinity. Attempts by some theologians to squeeze and crush that mystery into a new scholasticism of expectations have to be deflected, pushed back, from within a robust appreciation of what we have been given in good faith and hope. Contemporary theology has replaced the burden of false histories by a bondage to the future. Our faith has become suspended between the past and the future. Our memory of that faith has sometimes become weak and patchy, and wherever memory fades, so too does Christian identity. Here in these essays, new voices of classical Christianity are giving us the means to bring 'what has been' together with 'what we are now'; with this collection we have been given an opportunity to act, to live within our faith today and grow in devotion. The essays in On Classical Trinitarianism deserve to be recognized as signs that there still is a right path: that hard-earned scholarship can still point the way for those who seek direction or strengthening. In these essays, the reader finds the fundamental doctrine of Christian faith—God existing in the reality of Trinity—received, remembered, and given energy and clarity. The result is a diverse collection of insights, explorations, and renewal that remains true to the authentic history of Christian faith seeking understanding. Reading these essays, you will recognize both true scholarship at work and the present fruits of the Spirit." -Michel Rene Barnes, associate professor emeritus of theology at Marquette University "Controversy, in the hand of our triune God, drives the church into deeper clarity concerning its beliefs. That proved true in the Arian controversy that produced the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. It has also proven true in the modern evangelical controversy over the doctrine of the Trinity, and On Classical Trinitarianism is strong evidence of that deepening clarity. Matthew Barrett has brought together forty essays by trinitarian scholars that explore the lofty theological mountain peaks of the Trinity, the eternal generation of the Son, the spiration of the Holy Spirit, God's simplicity, aseity, and impassibility, and inseparable operations. Such doctrines require hard thinking, and this is not a book for the intellectually faint of heart, but the fruit of such profound theology is magnificent doxology as we bow before the incomprehensible mystery of our infinite Creator and Redeemer." -@JoelBeeke, professor of homiletics and systematic theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan "The Trinity gives coherence to Christian faith and life. While multiauthor volumes often lack coherence, a beautifully biblical and classically catholic vision of the Trinity draws these contributors together. Presenting a positive, and overwhelmingly persuasive, depiction of ideas such as divine simplicity, processions, missions, and appropriations, this book has potential to change permanently how many modern Christians think about the Trinity. Though it is likely naive to hope that this will be the case, this material should kill and bury any notion of subordination in the Trinity, showing that such dead ideas are incompatible with the living faith of the church. A lot remains at stake in trinitarian theology, and this volume goes a long way toward illustrating why and how." -Ryan M. McGraw, Morton H. Smith Professor of Systematic Theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Here she is. The Reformation as Renewal @ZonderAcademic. Blood, sweat, tears and all.

GIVEAWAY This Sunday is Trinity Sunday! May both books help you retrieve the Trinity of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. Stay faithful to the Trinity of Nicene orthodoxy this week. Follow. Retweet. Like. And win. amazon.com/Reformation-Renew…

Friends, we need to recover a biblical, orthodox Trinity today, one that is not vulnerable to Trinity drift. I am giving away a dozen copies of my new book, Simply Trinity @ReadBakerBooks. Follow & Retweet to win! amazon.com/Simply-Trinity-Un…

Here she is. Covered in edits and headed back for the last time to @ZonderAcademic 950 pages Coming your way this May *The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. An Intellectual and Theological History.*

Big news! Here's the cover for my intellectual history @ZonderAcademic THE REFORMATION AS RENEWAL Reformers were accused of novelty & have been blamed since for schism & secularism. It's time we listen to reformers who claimed reformed catholicity. 2022/23 Happy Refo week

EFS started in academy and became ingrained in churches AND this happened for decades. We may have achieved a consensus among academics that EFS is unorthodox, but we need academics & pastors to team up and help churchgoers relearn the Trinity for long haul. Churches are ready.

GIVEAWAY To celebrate Simply Trinity winning the @CTmagazine Book of the Year award in Theology, I’m giving away 5 copies. This Xmas let’s cultivate a love for Jesus by recovering a trinitarian outlook of the Son of God we worship. Follow & Retweet to win

Pastor, Follow the church calendar. We Protestants (& Baptists!) have a right to this rich liturgy. Don’t know where to start? Begin this June w/ Trinity Sunday. Say the Nicene Creed together and preach the Trinity from the holy scriptures. What’s more important than orthodoxy?

📚GIVEAWAY 🎉 I am giving away a copy of my book! Like. Follow. Retweet to win *On Classical Trinitarianism* @ivpacademic. Winner of TGC Book Award in Theology. If you are coming to the Credo conference, look for the discount code!

I love teaching. One student asked, why do we Baptists limit ourselves to two transcendentals? We’re zealous for truth, devoted to goodness, but settle for church in a strip mall. Baptists, bring beauty back. It’s time: retrieve aesthetics. We need transcendence in church again.

How encouraging to sit back & see so much love for Thomas Aquinas. It warms my Reformed Thomistic heart. I've been assigning Thomas for years and the benefits for pastors, scholars, & the average Christian are endless. If you are unfamiliar, here are 5 simple steps you can take:

If you struggle with assurance, then listen to this: The entire holy Trinity is devoted to forming, reforming, informing, and blessing [you], and toward that same end runs the entire Scripture and our entire theology. -Petrus van Mastricht

Sad to see EFS (Eternal Functional Subordination of Son) making rounds again. It still pervades our schools & churches. We keep projecting authority-submission in gender into the Godhead. What is it about evangelicalism that's so seduced by a theology so contrary to orthodoxy?🧵

Here is the table of contents for On Classical Trinitarianism. 40 chapters. Protestants. Roman Catholics. Eastern Orthodox. All from for the sake of retrieving Nicaea. Which chapter are you most eager to read? I’ll just say, Horton’s is quite the closer. Coming soon @ivpacademic.

I love Advent. Here is a beautiful visualization of the liturgical calendar. Pastor, what an opportunity to take your people through the scriptures and story of the gospel.

NEWS! Cover for my new book is out! *On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God.* Releases October. I’ve brought together 40 top theologians for one purpose: to renew orthodoxy in our institutions & churches. Contents: ivpress.com/on-classical-tri…

One of evangelicalism’s weakest muscles is philosophy. Never ceases to amaze me how quick folks are to dismiss classical philosophy when they’ve never read the sources. Doesn’t help that philosophy is absent in some advanced degrees either. How can we remedy this? Start by reading through Copleston’s History of Philosophy. It’s not only unsurpassed in its clarity but he is gifted at unveiling the divide between classical and modern metaphysics. Several years ago I started making it required reading for my students. These 9 volumes may be the most important set you ever read. And yes, pastors, this applies to you too! My @CredoMagazine Book of the Week.

NEWS I am pleased to announce our newest Credo Fellow: @gavinortlund Gavin embodies the classical spirit of @CredoMagazine. Look for him on future Credo Alliance episodes, plus a unique crossover episode between Truth Unites and the Credo Podcast.  credomag.com/2023/06/announc…

The grammatical-historical method is essential to exegesis. BUT it is not sufficient. To account for typology, progressive revelation, and a unified canon, one must pay attention to divine authorial intent across the canonical horizon.

Announcement! take 2 My new book is called Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, & Spirit @ReadBakerBooks Foreword @scottrswain. We're experiencing Trinity drift. I've written this book to help retrieve biblical orthodoxy. RT to win copy amazon.com/Simply-Trinity-Un…

With The Don’s blessing, I am excited to share a new addition to NSBT at start of 2020 by yours truly. I will say more in the days ahead...

I have been promoted from Associate to Professor @MBTS. I am grateful to president @jasonkeithallen for his continual support, giving me opportunities to flourish. I look forward to many more years teaching students as we gaze at the beauty of our Lord for the church. …

Absolutely fascinating. Both Francis Turretin and Petrus van Mastricht call the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil *sacraments.* Sacraments of what? The covenant of works.

The 20th century has not been a great one for theology. Except for God giving us a theologian like Garrigou-Lagrange. He is a master Thomist. Soon, I will introduce him to Credo. In the meantime, his two volumes on God are two bucks on kindle! My @CredoMagazine Book of the Week.

NEWS It’s coming. 2024. *The Trinity and the Renewal of Nicaea* edited by yours truly 40 authors. All retrieving classical trinitarian theism for the renewal of orthodoxy today. @ivpacademic

Announcement! My new book is called Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, & Spirit @ReadBakerBooks 2021. Foreword @scottrswain. We are experiencing Trinity drift. I've written this book to help retrieve biblical orthodoxy. A companion to None Greater.

A prayer to say before you preach: May your scriptures be my pure delight, so that I am not deceived in them and do not lead others astray in interpreting them. -Augustine

I'm pumped! @ivpacademic has asked me to be the editor of *ON CLASSICAL CHRISTOLOGY.* Some 40+ theologians coming together to retrieve Chalcedon today. How incredible it would be if churches and institutions recovered the orthodoxy of classical Christology. Pray for me.

Friends, I‘m so excited to share this big news with you: @BakerAcademic has invited me to write a DOCTRINE OF GOD. Currently there are few and they tend to compromise classical Christian theism. Please pray for me as I write a new one in the flavor of dogmatics.

The Credo x Sola Conference was overwhelming. A few reasons: 1. Unity: many traditions came together around orthodoxy. Beautifully Christian. 2. Deep theology: each theologian delivering robust teaching on the Trinity of Nicaea 3. Zeal: attendees bought so many (!) theology books to go home and learn more 4. Worship: we repeatedly said the Nicene creed together as a spiritual exercise. 5. Humility: a truly unique mark of the conference was dialogue over classical texts as attendees personally interacted with speakers in a spirit of faith seeking understanding (Anselm). Big thanks to @mike_reeves, @FredFredSanders, @RevKevDeYoung, @MichaelHorton_, @gavinortlund, as well as breakouts with @jarbitro, @AdrielTweets, Brannon Ellis. We are so grateful to the @CredoMagazine and @solamediaorg staff, and the volunteers at IBC. Can’t wait until next year. Wait til you hear the topic.

I have been overwhelmed by so many who have reached out personally with love, sharing their stories too. My family and I are so grateful. I am preaching through the Nicene Creed at St Aidan’s Anglican Church. Two messages below ⬇️. If you love orthodoxy, we welcome you. In August I will preach on the Holy Spirit! ps, the first sermon was delivered to a church service where all the kids were present. I have never had to preach eternal generation to children but what a challenging and rewarding experience! Enjoy 1. Only begotten Son on.soundcloud.com/EtWUWg4fWN… 2. Light from Light on.soundcloud.com/J2WRJKRRR5…

Don’t underestimate the importance of a theologically minded wife. It was Katy who encouraged Martin Luther to respond to Erasmus on free will. A wife who is theological is a husband’s most precious jewel.

Is it not ironic that Satan quotes Ps. 91:11-12 to tempt Jesus to jump off the temple? Notice how Satan stops at v. 12; the next verse says, “the serpent you will trample underfoot.” Even Satan knows the value of context in exegesis. A good reason to stay awake in herm. class.

Four ways we sin against God's providence: 1. Grumble - as if God doesn't know what he's doing 2. Idleness - as if God's providence excuses our laziness or licentiousness 3. Neglect - as if God doesn't work through secondary causes 4. Anxiety - as if things happen by chance

Just heard back from my editor @ZonderAcademic The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, & Apostolic Church releases spring 2023! Grateful to historians who gave feedback. Pray as I go to work, asking reformers to tell us what it means to be Protestant.

The Son is everything the Father is except he’s a Son. -@RevKevDeYoung quoting Thomas Aquinas

There have been few moments as monumental in my life, as a pastor and a father, than when I baptized my own daughter this past Sunday. God has been so gracious to redeem my daughter Georgia. What a declaration of his gospel and all the promises that belong to Georgia in Christ.

God is not good because he causes goodness, but rather goodness flows from him because he is good. -Thomas Aquinas

Fellow evangelicals, don't buy the myth that the reformers interpreted scripture in total discontinuity w/ patristic-medieval hermeneutics (fourfold exegesis: literal, allegorical, tropological, analogical). It's historically sloppy & will turn evangelicalism into fundamentalism.

Once upon a time students entered seminary having read Aristotle. Not anymore. As a result, students don’t know basic metaphysics and why it’s so critical to theology. So, every first year student of mine will read Aristotle for Everybody which is as clear as it is persuasive. It assumes nothing. If you are a student but feel overwhelmed by your lack of classical education, start with Adler and work up from there. You will discover that philosophy is indispensable and your seminary training is terribly incomplete without it. My @credomagazine Book of the Week

18 years of marriage today to this beautiful woman.

GIVEAWAY What might the church of the future look like if we retrieve a more biblical and orthodox Trinity today? Will you join me towards that end? I am giving away copies of my new book, Simply Trinity @ReadBakerBooks. Follow & Retweet to win! amazon.com/Simply-Trinity-Un…

It is not the theologian who is wrong that you should fear, but the theologian who never thinks he is wrong.

The divine nature of Christ does not die! There’s zero change in the divine nature when Jesus’ body is put in the grave. -Gavin Ortlund, Credo conference

Announcement! Today I launch the CENTER FOR CLASSICAL THEOLOGY @CenterClassical With @crossway CCT will host Annual lecture: 2023 Carl Trueman 2024 Michael Horton Publications: New Studies in Classical Theology Thomas Aquinas for Protestants series credomag.com/center-for-clas…

Sabbatical begins. Here we go! @BakerAcademic

Every Sunday Anglican churches open the Book of Common Prayer to confess the Nicene Creed, equipping their people to stay faithful in a secular age. Trinity Anglican Seminary @TASeminary has invited me to deliver the John Rodgers lectures. Join me! tas.edu/rodgers/ I will share my pilgrimage into Anglicanism and explain why I believe Anglicanism is so unique, capable of leading the way, guiding Christians back to biblical orthodoxy. What a way to celebrate Reformation week!

I am asked a lot what major *systems* are *must reading* for a PhD student in systematic theology. Here are 4 pillars: 1. Aquinas, Summa 2. Turretin, Institutes 3. Mulller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics 4. Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics A quadrilateral for dogmatics

Evangelicals are painfully unfamiliar with medieval theology. Students, here is a place to start: 1. Anselm, Major Works 2. Bernard of Clairvaux, Selected Works 3. Bonaventure, Breviloquium and Mystery of Trinity 4. Aquinas, Summa (start with Attributes, Trinity, Christology)

My new book releases...TODAY! Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit @ReadBakerBooks Help me retrieve biblical orthodoxy in the church today. GIVEAWAY: I have several copies. RT AND FOLLOW to win. amazon.com/Simply-Trinity-Un…

J.R.R. Tolkien pretended to be Father Xmas & wrote from the North Pole, telling his children about reindeer escaping, polar bears in mischief, & those tricky goblins. Tolkien knew how to create magic and with humor for those who have the imagination. @CredoMagazine book of week.

If you’re a student, I cannot emphasize how important it is to read all the Fathers so you have a right understanding of Christianity. It’s going to take time but it’s worth it. Find a school that makes you read them. Find a church that embraces catholicity and will help you.

Big news! 1/7 @BHAcademic has asked @CraigACarter1 and me to be the editors of a new series PILLARS IN CHRISTIAN DOGMATICS What a line-up already, authors like Stephen Holmes, @jvfesko, @adividu, @LGoligher, James Dolezal, @RonniKurtz. Many more to come What's so unique?

GIVEAWAY We have spent decades fortifying doctrines like inerrancy or justification, meanwhile we are experiencing Trinity drift. No longer can we afford to compromise this foundational doctrine. Help me retrieve biblical orthodoxy. Several copies! Follow and Retweet to win

GIVEAWAY @scottrswain wrote the Foreword to my book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit. But he has a book out too: The Trinity and the Bible, which models theological interpretation. Christmas presents for your pastor. Retweet and Follow to win both!

Wow, I am so honored by this award! Thank you @CTmagazine for choosing Simply Trinity for theology book of the year. May this be a step towards recovering orthodox Trinity for the renewal of the church. After so much opposition, it is refreshing to see trinitarian truth prevail.

Yesterday we took my 12 year old son and 9 year old daughter to camp. I woke up early and look what I saw in each of their bags. The BCP. We never asked them to bring it. As parents, I cannot express enough how spiritually transformative this has been for our children. Beautiful. We are so grateful to the Lord. Plus, I just love the fact that my son put sticky notes in there to mark his favorite parts.

Really Good. @jvfesko’s forthcoming book @crossway for the *Aquinas for Protestants series* that I am editing with @CraigACarter1.

Here she is. Back cover! Foreword: Carl Trueman Afterword: Timothy George Endorsements: Bruce Gordon, @MichaelHorton_, Scott Manetsch, Selderhuis, @gavinortlund, @jvfesko, Levering, Gatiss, Adams, Needham, @JoelBeeke, @RScottClark My final edits are in. Releases in 3 months.

Have you ever noticed how the Heidelberg Catechism is structured? Guilt. Grace. Gratitude. Pastors and worship leaders, do you lead your people through these three on Sunday morning? Don't fear liturgy. The gospel is its essence.

Yesterday I visited a used bookstore and saw thousands of Christian books that 10 years ago were all the rage, the who's who of theology. Now no one will buy them, no one cares. A humbling reminder that we are far less important than we think. Keep things in perspective.

The Table of Contents is now ready for *The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church* coming this May @ZonderAcademic. Here is a preview.

One thing I respect in a theologian is honesty about his or her own development. The temptation is to save face and act like you've always had it together, always known everything. That's pride. Be transparent instead. Humble transparency respects divine incomprehensibility.

God drowns the devil in the waters of your baptism. For the Fathers, the crossing of the Red Sea is a type of Christian baptism. Basil the Great: *that sea is a type of baptism, creating separation from Pharaoh as this bath also creates separation from the tyranny of the Devil.*

As a family we say together the first question and answer of the Heidelberg Catechism often. It’s what I want read to me on my death bed. Don’t miss this nearly 1,000 page tome by @RScottClark. It’s no mere commentary, but a theology in and of itself. Look for it from @LexhamPress.

When the Arians rejected eternal generation, they said they were merely following the *plain meaning* of the text. How telling. A reminder that our Trinity doctrine depends on a Christian hermeneutic that reads the Bible as a unity and consults the rule of faith in exegesis.

17 years of marriage today! 21 years since we first met. Her authenticity is so pure. Her devotion is so true. And she's still buying me books. The first was Augustine's Confessions and the latest Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. She is lovely.

What’s the difference between Father and Son? If you say, “the Son obeys the Father,” you violate what the Nicene creed says about the Son before it ever gets to the incarnation. @FredFredSanders

I get many emails from pastors trying to undo EFS (eternal functional subordination of Son) 6 steps help: -Require orthodoxy for leadership -Adopt/write confession that's clear on Trinity -Insert Nicene creed in membership & liturgy -Preach trinitarian -Commit to long haul -Pray

Proclaiming the Triune God will release this year! May this book inspire you, pastor, to preach an orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. May it encourage you, churchgoer, to spend your life contemplating the Trinity. Table of Contents, with an appendix on creeds in the liturgy.

My new office @MBTS ! It's located in the newly renovated library, which is very handsome if you ask me.

A forthcoming gem. Geerhardus Vos-yes, the biblical theologian-shows how crucial natural theology is for Christianity. Intro by @jvfesko is priceless, exposing straw men, demonstrating Reformed tradition’s classical roots. Cherry on top: Foreword by Richard Muller. Must read!

Many have asked what the SBC decided on the Nicene Creed? Officially, it’s been referred to the Executive Committee. Would you join me and commit to praying? The next year is critical. Pastors, we need to teach the creeds *in the church.* Resources coming soon.

BIG NEWS @BakerAcademic will publish a Classical Theology Reader as a companion to my Systematic Theology. As you read a chapter in my ST you can go read the corresponding primary sources in my Reader. As a prof, this is a dream come true. The Great Tradition at your fingertips.

I have been waiting a long time for a book like this one. We live in a difficult era, caught as we are between two extremes. On the one hand, radicals will tell us that if we listen to Aristotle, we will corrupt Christianity. On the other hand, modernism will tell us that we must dispense with Aristotle for the sake of revisioning classical Christianity. Against the radicals, we would do well to remember that our Protestant scholastic forefathers, many of whom were responsible for our Protestant confessions, critically appropriated Aristotle to further fortify the pillars of theology. Against modernism, Aristotle could not be more relevant, assisting us with the tools required to keep at bay everything from monism to materialism. The beauty of @loumarkos’s book is the way he introduces the novice to the wisdom of Aristotle to better equip Christianity with a defense of its foundational commitments. In a secular age prone to skepticism, what student can afford not to read Markos and consider the myriad ways Aristotle can clarify what we believe and why? My @CredoMagazine Book of the Week

We sometimes assume that the covenant of works must be the invention of the reformers, but we should not forget that the Fathers read Genesis too. Athanasius doesn’t have to use the word covenant to convey something similar, using words like “law” and “promise” to describe the scene in the garden. We may not see detailed, systematic elaboration until the sixteen and seventeenth centuries but foundational concepts are being laid down even as early as the Fathers.

One thing I miss most in quarantine is regularly eating and drinking at the table of the Lord. You don’t realize how malnurished you are without it until this means of grace is taken away. Remembrance, communion, and hope all in one meal. We will feast again.

2025 is the big anniversary of Nicaea! Once in a lifetime. With all the conferences that meet each year we’re about to find out who really cares about orthodoxy and thinks the Trinity matters for the health of the church. Let’s pray for trinitarian revival.

Theology 1 @MBTS this Fall. It is crucial for students to see a whole system from start to finish. Bavinck will lead the way. Then the Great Tradition will teach us how dogmatics is done. Since we are for the church, we will read the Bible with the church. Join me!

First draft just came in from @crossway. Almost 900 pages of scholarship on the doctrine of justification. Look for it in March. My sweat and blood is in here somewhere. A big thanks is due to David Barshinger, too, for his editorial eye.

4 pathologies that plague the church 1-Anti-historical (anti-liturgical) 2-Anti-creedal/confessional (we abuse sola scriptura) 3-Anti-contemplative (we're pragmatic) 4-Anti-ecclesiastical (we don't take sin seriously) Trueman's lecture @CenterClassical piped.video/watch?v=GubwG5aU…