God’s Preferred Pronouns

Matt, Derek, and Alastair summon Mere Fi's Trinitarian correspondent, Fred Sanders, for a discussion of the appropriate pronouns for God.

In yet another brazen foray into hot topics, Matt, Derek, and Alastair talk with eminent trinitarian theologian, Dr. Fred Sanders, about why masculine terms are used to refer to God.  

Links Mentioned: 

Lexham Press Book of the Month 

Merrie Band 

The Holy Spirit: An Introduction, by Fred Sanders 

Elizabeth Achtemeier

The Book of the Month for March 2024 is W. Ross Hastings’ Pastoral Ethics: Moral Formation as Life in the Trinity. Hastings provides pastors an evangelical and trinitarian framework for moral formation and ethical discernment. For Hastings, ethics must be reclaimed as theological. Theology without ethics becomes gnosticism. Ethics without theology leads to legalism and death. Christian ethics participates in God’s life and God’s work. Through the month of March 2024, get 40% off this title at lexhampress.com/merefidelity with the code MEREFIDELITYMAR24.

Timestamps

0:00
Pastoral Ethics
1:54
Our Trinitarian Correspondent
3:22
Referring to God
7:19
Matt’s Second Publication
8:42
Personhood & Revelation
11:47
Trinity First, Then Creation
15:13
Now It’s Personal
19:19
Back to the Spirit
24:17
Feminine Imagery & Feminine Identity
31:33
Breath
34:43
Utility

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