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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Crossway; unknown edition (August 4, 2010)
  • Language: English
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  • ISBN-13: 978-1433513152
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5.0 out of 5 starsDepth and Clarity: The Trinity Book I've Been Waiting For
By Scott Carpenter on August 23, 2010
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There has been a revival of interest and scholarship on the doctrine of the Trinity in the last 20 years, and many fine studies have been published. But I have still often been asked what book can be recommended to help knowledgeable layman go deeper into this bedrock doctrine. I've been looking for years for the book that explains the practical significance of the doctrine for every day Christians. This is the the book. As the subtitle explains, the Trinity really does change everything, and Fred Sanders explains how the Trinity lies behind our most basic Christian practices and experiences. The book is accessible enough to be be readable by a wide lay audience, but it is deep enough to surprise and teach a scholar with a whole shelf of trintitarian theology. Whether you are a teacher, a pastor or a confused layman, The Deep Things of God will take you to the heart of Christian truth and experience in fresh and insightful way. And Fred Sanders is the perfect guy to bridge the gap between depth and understanding because he has published everything from scholarly monographs to comic books that explain the Trinity! The Deep Things of God is a rich and inviting encouragement to devotion and understanding.
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5.0 out of 5 starsYOU MAY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE TRINITY THAN YOU THINK...
By Kevin M. Fiske on September 8, 2010
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As kids, learning to swim, most of us were intimidated, even scared, by the "deep end" of the pool. I can remember vacationing with my family in the Wisconsin Dells, and it taking me hours on end, beside the hotel pool, to muster the courage to jump into water I knew would be over my head. Though my dad was right there to catch me, and provide instruction as to how to accomplish the seemingly insurmountable task successfully, something in me just couldn't do it. But then, after pacing back and forth, assuming a pseudo-confident jump position (holding my nose, of course), and then backing out for a couple of hours...I finally did it! Then, after awhile, I didn't even need my dad there to catch me. And something that once seemed so intimidating, proved to increase my enjoyment of swimming all the more.
That's a bit like what diving in to the doctrine of the Trinity can be like for many Christians. They know it's there. They've heard about it. However, something in them just can't muster the courage to really go after it, even though it would provide an increasing depth to their understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of all that God has done for us in the gospel of Christ.

Fred Sanders, associate professor of theology at Biola University's Torrey Honors Institute, in his recent book, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, aims to help Christians learn to "embrace the doctrine of the Trinity wholeheartedly and without reserve, as a central concern of Evangelical Christianity". "Why?", you may ask. Sanders says, that we must embrace a robust Trinitarianism because, "the doctrine of the Trinity inherently belongs to the gospel itself".Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsEmbracing the Beauty of the Trinity
By Aaron Armstrong on October 26, 2010
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For many Christians today, the Trinity is a doctrine to which we give almost no thought. While we certainly affirm it as being true, we don't really know how it makes a difference in our lives.
So it gets easier for us to start thinking that maybe it doesn't matter. The seeming paradox of God being one, yet three is a huge stumbling block to many people looking at the Christian faith... and maybe it wouldn't change anything if we just let it go.

Fred Sanders, associate professor of theology at Biola University's Torrey Honors Institute, disagrees.

"Deep down it is evangelical Christians who most clearly witness to the fact that the personal salvation we experience is reconciliation with God the Father, carried out through God the Son, in the power of God the Holy Spirit," he writes (p. 9).

But we've lost something as a movement; we've settled for a theological and spiritual shallowness, especially in regards to the Trinity. "Our beliefs and practices all presuppose the Trinity, but that presupposition has for too long been left unexpressed . . . and taken for granted rather than celebrated and taught" (p. 11).
That's why he wrote The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. In this book, Sanders hopes to reawaken an understanding of, and desire to celebrate, the deeply Trinitarian nature of Christianity.

Because the Trinity is so overwhelming in it's otherness, it's tempting for us to avoid even attempting to speak to it. But as Sanders writes, "We . . . should not let ourselves be trapped into thinking that everything depends on our ability to articulate the mystery of the triune God" (p. 36).

The reality is we are tacitly (implicitly) Trinitarian in innumerable ways.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding
By Justin Eason on February 23, 2011
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This book, more than any systematic theology, has helped to shape and mold the way I think about the gospel and the Trinity.

It begins somewhat technical, but quickly gets to the heart of Christianity itself: The trinity inviting us into the dance that is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Sanders book accomplishes what so many other Christian books fail to accomplish: it takes the focus off me and puts the focus of the reader on the Triune God.

The book subtitle "How the Trinity Changes Everything" is a great description. The focus here is how the shape of the trinity is the shape of the gospel. Not only how the trinity affects salvation history but also the joy and relationship of the trinity before salvation history and how we see the trinity in relation to Scripture, prayer, and evangelism.

Sanders pulls a lot from great Christian authors throughout history including C.S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, Thomas Manton, J.C. Ryle, R.A. Torrey, John Flavel and many others.

Theological. Scriptural. Applicable. This is not a book of Scriptural proofs of the Trinity. It is a book that takes a Big Picture view of the Trinity with the goal of our rejoicing in it; not just studying it.
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Any discussion of the Trinity tends to be deep...or nonsensical. Furthermore, deep discussion of the doctrine of the Trinity leaves many Christians with unanswered questions and a... Read more

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1.0 out of 5 starsExplaining simple truths you already know in a complicated way.

I gave up halvway in the book. Some chapters feels like explaining simple things you already know, just in a unnecessary long and complicated way. Read more

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Very ecumenical the word says they will unite but not by me

Published 5 months ago by Yve Rogers
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I enjoyed this book a great deal. It was assigned reading for a seminary theology class I took. I was already pretty familiar with the concept of the trinity, but this book along... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Ye Shall Be As Gods
5.0 out of 5 starsthis book is so amazing, love how in depths and detail it goes ...

this book is so amazing, love how in depths and detail it goes in. love it! bought it for my church so that on our own time we may read it and learn more about the Holy Trinity!

Published 6 months ago by Carolina caballero
5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific Book

A wonderful examination of the doctrine of the Trinity and how it effects all things.

Published 6 months ago by Sam
5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant!

It’s not like we are hurting for books on the Trinity. There was a time when the subject was covered rarely and, often, poorly. Today, though, we have a host of excellent options. Read more

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