Hello on script listeners, this is Matt Lynch. We're glad you tuned in. I hope you've poured

yourself a bowl cup of coffee because some of you, biblically oriented folk, are about to get a dose

of systematic theology in this episode, but from a theologian who reads the Bible, and those are

the type that we gravitate toward and enjoy. This is part two of Matt Bates's foray into things systematic theological,

and I think you'll enjoy the conversation.

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private Facebook message and we will file it you know where. Okay, without further ado, Matt Bates

with Fred Sanders. In his book, the Trinity, renowned Catholic theologian Carl Ronner speaks about the deplorable state of Trinitarian theology in the 20th century.

Ronner states, we must be willing to admit that should the doctrine of the Trinity have to be dropped as false, the major part of

religious literature could well remain virtually unchanged. Ronner was speaking about the manner in which

the doctrine of the Trinity is treated in isolation from other doctrines,

such as the incarnation and creation. Rer concludes that in the state of scholarship, as we know it

today, or in his era, we may know something about the Trinity in the sense that we affirm it to be

a revealed truth, but that we ourselves have nothing to do with the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

This is Matthew Bates, your OnScript host.

At OnScript, we're always interested in the interface between biblical studies and theology,

but in this episode, I'm continuing a mini-series for Onscript that engages systematics directly.

I have Fred Sanders with me today, author of the Triune God, an absolutely

outstanding new book on the Trinity published in Zondervin series New Studies in Dogmatics.

I think it's safe to say that Fred's book more than overcomes the lack that Ron are lamented,

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