Highlights on the Trinity Debate

By Robert Brady on October 7, 2016

You may have heard of the “Trinity Debate” that took place during the summer of 2016. We’ve received a lot of feedback from ordinary Alliance members wanting to more fully understand the discussion. Below you will find a summary of the highlights on the Trinity debate. If you would like a more comprehensive list please visit Books at a Glance.

Rachel Miller wrote two posts on this topic before it picked up traction:

May 22, 2015
Continuing Down This Path, Complementarians Lose

May 28, 2015
Rachel addresses the danger of departing from orthodox formulations of the Trinity using Calvin and Matthew Henry commentaries.
Does the Son Eternally Submit to the Authority of the Father?

Liam Goligher’s post on the Housewife Theologian blog is what started the big debate, posted in two parts on June 3rd and 6th, 2016:

June 3, 2016
Is it Okay to Teach a Complementarianism Based on Eternal Subordination?

June 6, 2016
Reinventing God

June 7, 2016
Carl Trueman stokes the fire with his post Fahrenheit 381

June 9, 2016
Bruce Ware's Response to Liam Goligher and Carl Trueman
God the Son–at Once Eternally God with His Father, and Eternally Son of the Father

Carl Trueman's Surrejoinder to Bruce Ware

Wayne Grudem's Response
Whose Position on the Trinity is Really New?

Carl Trueman's Rejoinder to Wayne Grudem

Denny Burke adds a handful of additional remarks:
A Brief Response to Trueman and Goligher

June 10, 2016
John Calvin weighs in

June 11, 2016
Mike Ovey
Should I resign? On the eternal subordination of the Son

June 13, 2016
Michael Bird/Michel Barnes
Patristics Scholar Michel R. Barnes Weighs in on the Intra-Complementarian Debate on the Trinity