Five Myths about the Trinity
What do you know about the Trinity? The Scriptures give sufficient content about the nature of God, and yet there are myths about the Trinity that go around. This article provides five such myths.
How Is the Holy Spirit Different from the Father and the Son?
Of the three persons of the Trinity, God the Holy Spirit is often viewed as mysterious, hard to understand. This people looks to show from Scripture the relationship of the Spirit to the Father and the Son, as well as the Spirit's role in the works of God.
Highly Personal Three
The Belgic Confession of Faith Article 9 The Trinity
The Belgic Confession of Faith Article 8 That God is One in Essence,Yet Nevertheless Distinguished in Three Persons
The Belgic Confession of Faith Articles 8 and 9 The Trinity
The Belgic Confession of Faith: Article 11
A Most Practical Doctrine
The Belgic Confession of Faith: Article 9
The Belgic Confession of Faith: Article 8
The Splendor of the Three-in-One God
The doctrine of the Trinity is the heart of Christianity, because it is impossible to think about creation and salvation without the doctrine of the Trinity. This article explains this by looking at the necessity and mystery of the Trinity.
Why Does the Trinity Matter?
Why is the doctrine of the Trinity important? It is important for your salvation, prayer, and worship.
Three Reasons to Study the Trinity
The doctrine of the Trinity is not easy to grasp. Studying it, however, brings great benefits for the believer. The doctrine is awe-inspiring, encouraging, and practical.
Three Trinitarian Controversies Every Christian Should Know
Our Confusion About God
What benefit is there to believing in the Trinity? This article explains that the Trinity is the key to understanding the Bible, Christian life, and prayer.
The Trinity School of Theology Series: Lecture 15
Loving the Incarnation John 1:1-5, 14-18; 1 John 1:1-4
A Personal Account The Promises Were about Jesus – But He Includes Us
A Novel Doctrine? The Trinity is not a Plot Exposed by a Paranoid Anti-Christian Novelist
Trinity and Relationships
Other-Wise: In the Presence of God
The Trinity in Christian Practice
Doctrine in Focus: The Trinity
This article explains the Trinity by outlining from Scripture the reality that there is one true God, and that this one God has eternally existed as three distinct persons.
Belgic Confession Articles 8-9: The Holy Trinity
John 17 – Gift of Glory, Gift of Unity
This article considers the high-priestly prayer of John 17, particularly the expression of mutual indwelling of the Trinity, and of Jesus' reference to himself receiving glory and passing it on, and the unity that issues from this.
The Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed expresses a biblical expression of the Christian understanding of the Trinity. This article explains the different forms of this creed, its history, content, and relevance.
The Athanasian Creed
How should we understand the Trinity? This question was addressed by the Athanasian Creed. This article explains its history, content, and relevance for today.
Biblical Servanthood Is Established by the Trinity
This article discusses the subject of biblical servanthood by looking at how the three persons in the Trinity relate to one another.
Trinity
This article considers the unity of the Trinity in Christ's command to baptize disciples.
200 Words: Why We Believe in the Trinity
This article, in summary form, explains why Christians believe in the Trinity.
The Very Practical Doctrine of the Trinity
This article discusses how the doctrine of the Trinity makes a practical difference in the lives of believers: it names our God, explains prayer, shows us how to love, and leads us to the cross.
How Does the Trinity Practically Apply to Your Life Today?
This article gives thought to the work of the Trinity in our everyday life.
The Doctrine of the Trinity
The three persons of the Trinity are distinguishable. This article looks at the relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Father and Son.
Filioque
Reply to Kevin Giles
This article responds to and interacts with Kevin Giles who wrote in the same journal about his concerns with American evangelicals' view of the Trinity and in particular the "subordination of the Son" to the Father. This article acknowledges some valuable criticisms made by Giles and his defense of the full equality of the trinitarian persons opposing hierarchical relations.
Sabellianism
This article discusses an ancient heresy, Sabellianism, which was a perversion of the truth of the Trinity.
God Is Trinity
Why is it important for every believer to understand the doctrine of the Trinity? This article gives the answer.
The Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Faith
The State of the Evangelical Trinitarian Resurgence
What is the state of the doctrine of the Trinity in the church and theology? This essay wants to be a diagnostic check, providing a look into the state of the evangelical trinitarian resurgence.
The Church and the Holy Trinity: The Holy Spirit
The Church and the Holy Trinity: God the Son
The Church and the Holy Trinity: God the Father
Trinity and Church: An Examination of Theological Methodology
This article is a critical examination of the theological method of three recent systematic theology textbooks from an evangelical perspective. The analysis takes place via the respective views of the Trinity and ecclesiology.
Hermeneutical Bungee-Jumping: Subordination in the Godhead
Is there a relationship of authority/subordination between Father and Son in the Trinity? The discussion of this essay focuses on a consideration of the theory of the subordination of the Son to the Father and its implications for the doctrine of Christ.
What Is God Like?
What is God like? This question can only be answered by God, and he has answered it by revealing himself in the Bible. This article explains the Trinity, the communicable attributes, and incommunicable attributes of God.
Taking Hold of God – Martin Luther on Prayer and Reformation
In this chapter the author first shows that prayer is an important key to understanding Martin Luther as a Reformer and theologian. He further addresses Luther’s basic theology of prayer, his emphasis on the Trinity in prayer, and his personal prayer life.
Patristic Contributions to Trinitarian Theology
What is the Trinity? To answer this question this article gives a brief survey of the key people, debates, terminology, and councils that were influential in the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the first five centuries after Christ.
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
This Is Love – God's Eternal Love
Chapter 1 is about love as an attribute of God. The author directs his readers to consider how this love is manifested in the Trinity, and how the glory of this love is seen in Jesus Christ and the salvation of man.
The Trinity
This article explores the biblical grounds for the divinity of the three persons of the Trinity, and their relation to one another.
The Trinity of God
The doctrine of the Trinity seeks to explain that God exists in three persons, and every person is fully God, yet there is one God. This article explains the biblical grounds of this claim.
The Undivided Three: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Church History
The Nicene Creed formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity is a reflection of the biblical teaching. This article shows how this doctrine has shaped the worship and life of the church throughout history.
Established Boundaries
How do we explain the Trinity? Or how does one understand the statement, "God is one being in three persons"? These are the different questions that this article attempts to answer in detail on the relation between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Divine Trinity
The Christian faith stands or falls on the confession of the Trinity. This article shows that this confession is based on how God reveals himself in Scripture—as the Triune God. It explains the biblical view of the oneness of God and the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Trinity and Culture
The author of this article attempts to explain and describe what love should be like in a godly relationship. The author does this by using the doctrine of the Trinity, with further applications from a number of errors that are a result of failure to understand this Trinity properly.
The Holy Trinity – Introduction
This essay introduces the church’s faith in God as Trinity. Letham first reflects on potential problems for a trinitarian theology. Next he deals with potential benefits of recovering a rigorous faith in the Triune God.
The Holy Trinity: God’s Revelation of Himself
The Biblical Background of the Doctrine of the Trinity
The Trinity
This article is an exposition of Lord's Day 8 of the Heidelberg Catechism. The doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of the Christian faith. This is so because this is how God has revealed Himself to His Church. This article shows the biblical foundation of this teaching and the importance of this doctrine for the church in her worship of God.
Athanasius, the Son of God, and Salvation
This article provides an overview of the history and doctrine of Athanasius in contrast with that of Arius. Athanasius defended the teaching of the Nicene Creed regarding the nature of Jesus and the Trinity.
The Holy Trinity
Unity and Diversity
The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God
Looking at 1 Timothy 1:11, this article show what it means to speak about divine blessedness. Lamenting the loss of the blessedness of God in modern theology, the article calls for the rediscovery of this truth. The concept of a blessed God sums up the divine attributes of God, provides a bridge to the Trinity, and helps to interpret the anthropomorphisms of scripture.
Bavinck on the Doctrine of the Trinity
Walking Together
Looking at John 17, this article shows how the unity of the Trinity should serve as an example for Christian unity. Christians should reflect this unity by glorifying, serving, and loving one another.
The Scripture Testimony of Holy Trinity Article 9: Belgic Confession
The Holy Trinity of Persons in One Divine Essence Article 8: Belgic Confession
God is Love
Redemption Planned
We are a people who place our trust in God’s covenant faithfulness. This covenant faithfulness of God firstly applies to the covenant of redemption before the creation of this world. This article looks at God's plan of salvation and the promises the three persons of the Trinity made to each other.
The Trinity: Tertullian and Hilary
This article looks at the doctrine of the Trinity in the early church, specifically Tertullian and Hillary of Poitier's view of the Trinity.
Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 2:3 (Part one)
This article on the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 2:3 is about the Trinity.
Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 2:3 (Part two)
This article on the Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 2: is about the Trinity.
The Divine Trinity
The Trinity in the Gospel of John
Does the Bible Teach Calvinism?
This article is about the five points of Calvinism, total depravity and salvation, and the work of the Trinity in salvation.
Taking a Glance at an Ancient Topic
This article looks at the characteristics of prayer, calling to the Trinity in prayer, prayer and worship, and prayer and faith.
Marriage and Communion
This article is about marriage and the relationship of the Trinity. The author also looks at marriage in Genesis 2, marriage and fellowship, and equality and submission in marriage.
The Blueprint of Redemption
This article is about the covenant of redemption, the promises of the three Persons of the Trinity to one another before the world was made.