“On the eternal generation of the Son and its application to the relations of the persons, not the divine essence, see Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elentic Theology, 1:278–302, esp. 292–302.”

— Letham “On the eternal generation of the Son and its application to the relations of the persons, not the divine essence, see Francis Turretin, Institutes…

What books have most profoundly shaped you [Trueman] as an historian? Roland Bainton’s Here I Stand is the book that inspired me to become a Reformation historian. I…

The Trinity — Letham (Keith Mathison, Ligonier)

 First, “we need to recognize the equal ultimacy of the being of God and the three persons” (p. 381). Second, the three persons are homoousios — “The Father,…

The Ground of Justification

“If the righteousness that is imputed be the ground and foundation of our justification, and made ours by that imputation, state it how you will, that…

Inseparable Operations & Terminus Operationis

Assumption and Union

Our Triune God

We are taught from the Scriptures that our God is Triune. He is one in essence, but that one undivided essence subsists in three undivided persons.…

Owen on James 2:22 (MIC DROP)

“[F]or τέλειος, τελειουμαι, doth nowhere in the Scripture signify the internal, formal perfecting of anything, but only the external complement or perfection of it, or the…

Contra Hunsinger on Owen

“Wherefore, as condemnation is not the infusing of a habit of wickedness into him that is condemned, nor the making of him to be inherently wicked…

The Purpose of especially Romans and Galatians

“The whole of his purpose [especially Romans and Galatians] is to declare how a guilty, convinced sinner comes, through faith in the blood of Christ, to…