Jason S. Sexton - The Holy Trinity Revisited: Essays in Response to Stephen Holmes

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T.A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton

Fred Sanders

Robert Letham

Kevin Giles

Jon Mackenzie

Jason Radcliff

R.T. Mullins

John Colwell

Michael F. Bird

Graham J. Watts

Stephen R. Holmes

Jason S. Sexton and T.A. Noble

Michael F. Bird is a biblical theologian and lecturer in theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD from the University of Queensland and has authored Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction, and is a popular blogger at his Patheos-hosted blog, Euangelion (www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/).

John Colwell has recently served as pastor of Budleigh Salterton Baptist Church, and is tutor in doctrine and ethics at Spurgeons College, London, where he is a senior research fellow. He holds a PhD from Kings College, London, and is the author of Promise and Presence: An Exploration of Sacramental Theology.

Kevin Giles is an ordained Anglican minister who served in parish ministry for forty years. On the Trinity, he has published The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology as well as Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity. He has also served as a consulting theologian for World Vision Australia, and lives in Melbourne.

Stephen R. Holmes is senior lecturer in St Marys College, University of St Andrews. He is an ordained Baptist minister and holds a BA degree from the University of Cambridge, an MTh from Spurgeons College, London, and a PhD from Kings College, London. He is editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology and author of Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology; and also The Holy Trinity: Understanding Gods Life (US version: The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity).

Robert Letham is director of research and senior lecturer in systematic and historical theology at Wales Evangelical School of Theology. He holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and is a Presbyterian minister with twenty-five years pastoral experience. Among a range of books, he has written The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship, winner of the Gold Medallion award of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

Jon Mackenzie is a PhD candidate in Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge writing a thesis entitled, Phenomenology of the Word: The Place of the Subject in Protestant Theology. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge along with an MTheol from the University of St Andrews where he subsequently spent a year as an adjunct lecturer.

R.T. Mullins has completed a postdoctorate at the Center for the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame and is research associate in philosophy of religion at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, and is the author of articles in the