Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11

Foreword Scott R. Swain 13

1 Trinity Drift 17

Part 1 How Did We Drift Away? 41

2 Can We Trust the God of Our Fathers? Retrieving Biblical Orthodoxy 43

3 Since When Did the Trinity Get Social? The Manipulated Trinity 67

Part 2 How Do We Find Our Way Home? 95

4 How Does God Reveal Himself as Trinity? Eternity and the Mystery of the Gospel 97

5 Why Must God Be One to Be Three? Simply Trinity 125

6 Is the Son Begotten from the Father? Paternity and Filiation, Part 1 155

7 Is Eternal Generation Central to the Gospel? Paternity and Filiation, Part 2 179

8 Is the Son Eternally Subordinate to the Father? A Son Worthy of Worship 213

9 Is the Spirit Spirated? Spiration 261

10 Do Father, Son, and Spirit Work Inseparably? Communion with the indivisible Trinity 287

Conclusion 317

Glossary 319

Notes 326

Bibliography 352