Scott R. Swain
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Retrieving Catholicity: A Reformed Perspective
The church is the crowning achievement in the work of salvation, planned by the Father, accomplished by the Son, and brought into reality by the Spirit (Eph. 1:3–14). The Father’s “plan for the fullness of time” is to sum up all things in heaven and earth under the headship of Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:10). This […]
“The Trinity and the Bible: On Theological Interpretation,” by Scott R. Swain
*** Lexham | 2021 | 144 pages (hardcover) | $19.99 Scott Swain has established himself as one of today’s leading voices on the doctrine of the Trinity and on the practice of reading Scripture to grasp its theological and spiritual substance. In The Trinity and the Bible: On Theological Interpretation, Swain has gathered together several […]
“Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology,” edited by Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain
Oxford Handbook of Reformed TheologyEdited by Michael Allen and Scott R. SwainOxford: Oxford University Press, 2020688 pages (hardcover), $145.00 Reformed theology is catholic Protestantism, and catholic Protestantism is Reformed theology. The volume before me serves as a summarized introduction to the question, what is Reformed theology? It provides something of its genesis in the sixteenth […]
Retrieving Catholicity: The Gift of Wholeness and the Task of Love in a Fragmented World
The church is the crowning achievement in the work of salvation planned by the Father, accomplished by the Son, and brought into reality by the Spirit (Eph. 1:3–14). The Father’s “plan for the fullness of time” is to sum up all things in heaven and earth under the headship of Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:10). This […]
Recommended Reading on the Eternal Generation of the Son
In the Nicene Creed, the Christian church confesses that the Second Person of the Godhead is not a creature made by God but the eternally begotten Son of God. The creed affirms the church’s belief “in the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, very God of very […]
