Orthodox trinitarianism typically refers to God in terms of three persons or subsistences (personas, subsistentia, or ὑποστάσιες) and one essence or substance (essentia, substantia, or οὐσία). But is there a sense in which God is one person? To put it another way, is God’s oneness personal? Here’s how three Princeton theologians addressed this topic. B. B. […]
Geerhardus Vos
The Doctrine of the Trinity in Five Theses
Here’s how Geerhardus Vos articulates the core affirmations of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity: There is only one divine being. Scripture expresses itself decisively against all polytheism (Deut 6:4; Isa 44:6; Jas 2:19). In this one God are three modes of existence, which we refer to by the word “person” and which are, each […]
Two New Theology Books Now on My Wishlist
P&R just published J. van Genderen & W. H. Velema’s Concise Reformed Dogmatics, which the publisher describes as “a crystallization of the best confessionally Reformed Dutch thought in a single, manageable English-language volume.” The translation is the merger of Gerrit Bilkes’s and Ed M. van der Maas’s separate English translations of the original 1992 Dutch […]
Wanted: A Dutch-to-English Translator
Yesterday I stumbled across Kuyper’s dogmatic theology, Dictaten dogmatiek: College-dictaat van een der studenten, on Princeton’s digital online library. By the subtitle, it appears to be dictations from one of his students. I really wish I knew even enough Dutch to work through some of this with profit. Better yet, I wish I knew someone […]
“Reprinted with Correcttions”
I was looking at some Geerhardus Vos stuff on the Kerux website and got a good chuckle when I read this: The Nature and Aims of Biblical Theology* Geerhardus Vos Biblical theology is a comparatively recent arrival in the theological family. In view of this, it can create little surprise that a wide divergence of […]