The Lord Is My Salvation
How is the gospel of God related to the God of the gospel? How ought the Church to confess with the psalmists that "God is my salvation"? In what ways have modern theologians sometimes wandered from this critically important connection? In this Greystone micro-course, leading trinitarian theologian Fred Sanders explains that in Christian theology, worship, and life we must confess the doctrines of the Trinity and of salvation as "closely related, mutually illuminating, and strictly ordered. When the two doctrines are left unconnected, both suffer. The doctrine of the Trinity begins to seem altogether irrelevant to salvation history and Christian experience, while soteriology meanwhile becomes naturalized, losing its transcendent reference. If they are connected too tightly, on the other hand, human salvation seems inherent to the divine reality itself." In this micro-course Dr. Sanders explains and explores this deep relationship by expounding the doctrine of eternal processions and temporal missions, ultimately showing how a right theology of God determines a proper and well-ordered--rather than disordered--grasp of the gospel, including the atonement, Christology, pneumatology, and the Church.
How is the gospel of God related to the God of the gospel? How ought the Church to confess with the psalmists that "God is my salvation"? In what ways have modern theologians sometimes wandered from this critically important connection? In this Greystone micro-course, leading trinitarian theologian Fred Sanders explains that in Christian theology, worship, and life we must confess the doctrines of the Trinity and of salvation as "closely related, mutually illuminating, and strictly ordered. When the two doctrines are left unconnected, both suffer. The doctrine of the Trinity begins to seem altogether irrelevant to salvation history and Christian experience, while soteriology meanwhile becomes naturalized, losing its transcendent reference. If they are connected too tightly, on the other hand, human salvation seems inherent to the divine reality itself." In this micro-course Dr. Sanders explains and explores this deep relationship by expounding the doctrine of eternal processions and temporal missions, ultimately showing how a right theology of God determines a proper and well-ordered--rather than disordered--grasp of the gospel, including the atonement, Christology, pneumatology, and the Church.
How is the gospel of God related to the God of the gospel? How ought the Church to confess with the psalmists that "God is my salvation"? In what ways have modern theologians sometimes wandered from this critically important connection? In this Greystone micro-course, leading trinitarian theologian Fred Sanders explains that in Christian theology, worship, and life we must confess the doctrines of the Trinity and of salvation as "closely related, mutually illuminating, and strictly ordered. When the two doctrines are left unconnected, both suffer. The doctrine of the Trinity begins to seem altogether irrelevant to salvation history and Christian experience, while soteriology meanwhile becomes naturalized, losing its transcendent reference. If they are connected too tightly, on the other hand, human salvation seems inherent to the divine reality itself." In this micro-course Dr. Sanders explains and explores this deep relationship by expounding the doctrine of eternal processions and temporal missions, ultimately showing how a right theology of God determines a proper and well-ordered--rather than disordered--grasp of the gospel, including the atonement, Christology, pneumatology, and the Church.