Voice, Vestigia, and the Holiness of the Triune God

I’ve organized my response into a loose series of comments, appreciations, and questions, as I try to begin to take in Katherine Sonderegger’s extraordinary work in this volume. Here, I will comment on 1) her voice in the project, 2) the vestigia Trinitatis, with sex/gender as an example, and 3) the holiness of the Triune…
The Holy One in Our Midst

What might it look like to pursue a theology that, in its very form, is warped and bent around the voice of the God who speaks, the one who was is indeed most fully and vivaciously alive, of the one who truly “is a consuming fire” (cf. Heb 12:29)? Volume 2 of Katherine Sonderegger’s tour…
Working Close to the Flame

“It is not from below to above that we seek here” (p. 295). Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology is a masterpiece. As its readers, we are invited into the master’s workshop. We glimpse her tools, we watch her work, we see the form of the craft taking shape. I imagine it as a blacksmith’s shop—this is old…
John Piper Lectures on the Joy of the Christian

According to Jonathan Edwards, joy is a central and essential aspect of what it means for God to be God and for humans to glorify God. So John Piper will teach us as he lectures on the theology of Jonathan Edwards and his enduring relevance for the life of faith and the fidelity of the…
A Short Meditation for Seminary Students
Oh seminary student, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. So we are told in the inspired words of Hebrews 10:31. Those who do not know Christ are well advised to pay attention to the counsel of Holy Scripture. Even Christian lay people should be reminded on a…