Fred Sanders - The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything

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When faced with dark riddles about our triune God, I turn to books by Fred Sanders for help with seeing the light of Scripture. In this book, deep questions find careful answers in a living theology that breathes and pulses with joy. As Sanders reminds us, Gods inner life, in the happy land of the Trinity above all worlds, is a livelier life than any other life. This readable book on Gods undiluted life is fantastically perceptive, and its been made more valuable now in a second edition with additional features for personal study, Bible meditation, group discussion, and real - life application. Like never before, The Deep Things of God invites new travelers to hike into the glorious terrain of this happy land together.

Tony Reinke, author, Newton on the Christian Life

What is already an excellent standard work on the Trinity has just become more useful. Like the first edition of his book, Fred Sanderss second edition aims to show the astonishingly wide relevance of this Christian doctrine to every area of our living and thinkingbut now, with the addition of a helpful study guide, study questions, and other aids, the book deserves the widest circulation.

D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Cofounder, The Gospel Coalition

Sanders has a gift for making the deep things of theologyin this case, the doctrine of the Trinityclear and compelling rather than shallow and simplistic. This is as good an introduction to the essentially Trinitarian shape of evangelical faith and practice of which Im aware. Every evangelical should be able to explain how the gospel is Trinitarian and the Trinity a summation of the gospel, and Sanders shows us how. He makes a convincing case that there is nothing wrong with the evangelical church in North America that a good dose of Trinitarian theology, if absorbed into the bloodstream of the body of Christ, could not cure. So take, drink, and prepare to be edified.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; author, Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity and Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine

The Trinity is not just a doctrine to which the church gives formal assent, nor is it one doctrine among many. It refers to the God who exists eternally and has created and redeemed us, the God of our trust and love, to whom we offer our worship and lives of thanksgiving. There are well - informed books on the Trinity and many accessible onesbut these characteristics dont always converge in the same volume. They do in The Deep Things of God .

Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California; author, Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in Gods Story

Sanderss book should be required reading for anyone involved in the work of the gospel. It will help readers catch a fresh vision of the depths of the message they strive to proclaim and foster a renewed sense of the grandeur of the Christian life they invite people to enjoy.

Mark Hopson, President, National School Project

As it is with other biblical truths, Im often asked by people about the Trinity, Does it really matter? One might conceivably respond, Apart from the truth of the Trinity, nothing else does! If that sounds like an overstatement, this book is precisely what you need. If youve been puzzled by the assertion that God is one divine being who subsists in three coequal persons, this book is precisely what you need. If you want to understand how the reality of our triune God affects every dimension of Christian truth and life, this book is precisely what you need. It is remarkably accessible, altogether persuasive, and urgently needed in todays church. Im thrilled to see it released in a second edition. If you missed it the first time around, dont let it happen again. I cant recommend it too highly.

Sam Storms, Lead Pastor for Preaching and Vision, Bridgeway Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Deep Things of God

The Deep Things of God

How the Trinity Changes Everything

(Second Edition)

Fred Sanders

The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything (Second Edition)

Copyright 2017 by Fred Sanders

Published by Crossway
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First printing 2017

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Trade paperback ISBN: -1-4335-5637
ePub ISBN: -1-4335-5640
PDF ISBN: -1-4335-5638
Mobipocket ISBN: -1-4335-5639

Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data

Names: Sanders, Fred (Fred R.), author.

Title: The deep things of God : how the Trinity changes everything / Fred Sanders.

Description: 2nd Edition. | Wheaton : Crossway, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016041218 (print) | LCCN 2017005644 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433556371 (tp) | ISBN 9781433556388 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433556395 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433556401 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Trinity. | Evangelicalism. | Spiritual lifeChristianity.

Classification: LCC BT111.3 .S27 2017 (print) | LCC BT111.3 (ebook) | DDC 231/.044dc23

LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2016041218

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

2017-04-19 08:35:00 AM

To Susan,

relentless encourager,

who understands.

Contents

Evangelicals, the Gospel, and the Trinity

(Or, How the Trinity Changed Everything for Evangelicalism and Can Do It Again)

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it.... Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.