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[Book Review] Adonis Vidu, The Same God Who Works All Things

Vidu, Adonis. The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2021. Book Review Adonis Vidu is a professor of Christian Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Part of his formation is from a Romanian Baptist background. Vidu completed his PhD from the University of Nottingham.…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Keith Whitfield, Trinitarian Theology

Whitfield, Keith S. Editor. Trinitarian Theology: Theological Models and Doctrinal Application. Brentwood, TN: B&H Academic, 2019. Editor’s Bio In the publication year of this book, Keith Whitfield was associate professor of Christian theology and vice president for academic administration at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC, where he also served as Provost and dean of…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity

Barrett, Matthew. Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2021. Author’s Bio The doctrine of God the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is at the very heart of Christianity. However, Matthew Barrett argues that there has been a drift from the classical understanding of the Trinity. During the…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Scott Swain, The Trinity: An Introduction

Swain, Scott. The Trinity: An Introduction. Short Studies in Systematic Theology. Edited by Graham A. Colle and Oren R. Martin. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020. Author’s Bio Scott Swain is the President and Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Currently, he is the President-elect and Program Chair of the Evangelical Theological…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Karl Rahner, The Trinity

Rahner, Karl. The Trinity. Translated by Joseph Donceel. 1967; Reprinted, NY: The Crossroad Publishing, 2001. Introduction Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was a German philosopher and Jesuit Catholic theologian. Rahner studied philosophy, and he attended seminars taught by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg. However, his doctoral mentor in philosophy rejected his dissertation (but later published…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Malcolm Yarnell, God the Trinity: Biblical Portraits

Yarnell III, Malcolm, God the Trinity: Biblical Portraits. Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2016. Introduction Malcolm Yarnell is the research professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, where he also completed his MDiv (1991). Yarnell earned his ThM at Duke University (1996) and a DPhil at Oxford University (2000). He is…

by JP Arceno

Top 10 Books I’ve Read in Year 2024

Before sharing my top 10 books list, I would like to express my gratitude in writing and praise God for allowing me to finish all my PhD coursework seminars last year. In the Spring of 2024, I took a Christology seminar under Dr. Malcolm Yarnell and an Ecclesiology seminar under Dr. Madison Grace. During the…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Malcolm Yarnell III, God: Theology for Every Person

Yarnell, Malcolm B. III. God: Theology for Every Person. Brentwood, TN: B&H Academic, 2024. Introduction Malcolm Yarnell III is the Research Professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX. Yarnell earned his PhD from Oxford University in 2000. As a Baptist theologian, he has written several books on biblical theology, the…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God, Vol. 1

Charnock, Stephen. The Existence and Attributes of God, Volume 1: Updated and Unabridged. Edited by Mark Jones. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) was one of the renowned Puritan ministers and theologians of his times and is still influential today. Charnock earned his BA at Emmanuel College in Cambridge (1646) and his MA at…

by JP Arceno

[Book Review] James Dolezal, All That is in God

Dolezal, James. All That is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2017. Introduction and Method James Dolezal’s intention in his All That Is In God is to defend and retrieve Classical Christian Theism. He will explain this term below. This work is a study…

by JP Arceno

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