Blogs by Carl Trueman

Garry Williams, the English theologian who is one of the most articulate scholarly advocates of penal substitutionary atonement,has recently published an article on the extent to which the Church Fathers can be regarded as holding to the doctrine.  It is... continue

Now that it is official that the kind of questions raised in the third and fourth centuries relative to Trinitarianism are nothing more than the constructs of a bunch of middle aged white guys, it is worth perhaps spending a... continue

Pastor Chris Anderson has a very perceptive post from a Fundamentalist perspective, on recent events.    On another note, these recent events have really only brought to the surface tensions and problems which are bound to exist when one tries to... continue

In the last week, three great new(ish) books have landed on my desk.First, the Rev. Thabiti Anyabwile has taken time off from preparing my Festschrift to write an excellent little volume entitled Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons.  It is part... continue

Many thanks to Richard Barcellos for sending this link in.  It may prove helpful to some in understanding the Oneness movement.... continue

A Librarian, whose tailor wishes to remain anonymous, has written to complain about the Librarianophobic nature of some of the comments on this blog.   On legal advice, we reprint the whole of his missal below:Reverend Sir:I am writing to... continue

Thanks to the great and the good (both the vocal and, more worryingly, the strangely silent), I am sure many pastors of churches will now have to waste a lot of valuable time reading the works of T D Jakes... continue

A number of Ref21 readers have emailed and asked me to comment on the Elephant Room.   To be honest, Frank Turk, over at TeamPyro, has expressed what thoughts I do have but better than I could have done so.  One... continue

My attempt to trigger class warfare by blaming the English public school system for the popularity of annihilationism seems to have worked, with a mass rising of the OBN and the OST to protest my thesis.   Indeed, Pete Sanlon... continue

Anglican theologian, Pete Sanlon, recently sat down with Dr. Alister Chapman to talk about the latter's new book on the life and ministry of John Stott.   The interview is now available here.With all of the uncritical adulation that typically... continue