NEW STUDIES IN DOGMATICS

THE TRIUNE GOD

FRED SANDERS

MICHAEL ALLEN AND SCOTT R. SWAIN,

GENERAL EDITORS

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The Triune God

Copyright © 2016 by Fred Sanders

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SERIES EDITORS

Michael Allen, Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida, USA

Scott R. Swain, Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida, USA

ADVISORY BOARD

John B. Webster,† Professor of Divinity, St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, USA

Katherine Sonderegger, Professor of Theology, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Henri Blocher, Professor of Systematic Theology, Faculté Libre de Théologie Évangélique, Vaux-sur-Seine, France

ZONDERVAN EDITORIAL ADVISOR

Katya Covrett, Executive Editor, Zondervan Academic

To Phoebe—

I commend her to you, for she has been a

helper of many, and of me also.

CONTENTS

Series Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Argument of This Book

1. Attunement: Gloria Patri

2. Revelation of the Triune God

3. Communicative Missions

4. Incarnation and Pentecost

5. God Who Sends God

6. Trinitarian Exegesis

7. New Covenant Attestation

8. Old Covenant Adumbration

9. Theses on the Revelation of the Trinity

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Author Index