Fred Sanders | People, Biola University

Department	Torrey Honors College
Biola Affiliations	Faculty
Website	https://fredfredfred.com/

Documents

Degrees

Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union
M.Div., Asbury Theological Seminary
B.A., Murray State University

Member of

FirstGen Faculty and Staff Professor, Torrey Honors College

Biography

Dr. Fred Sanders is a systematic theologian who studies and teaches across the entire range of classic Christian doctrine, but with a primary focus on the doctrine of the Trinity. Sanders has taught in Torrey Honors College since 1999, and is an amateur historian of Biola's institutional history. He is co-founder of the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, and maintains an active internet presence via Twitter and blog. He and his family are members of Grace Evangelical Free Church.

Affiliations

Evangelical Theological Society
American Academy of Religion
Wesleyan Theological Society

Publications (Selected)

Books

Union with Christ and the Life of Faith, Sanders F., (Baker Academic, 2025).
Confessing the Church: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics, ed. Crisp, O. and Sanders, F., (Zondervan, 2024).
The Holy Spirit: An Introduction, Sanders F., (Crossway, 2023).
Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology, Sanders F., (Eerdmans, 2021).
The Third Person of the Trinity: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics, ed. Crisp, O. and Sanders, F., (Zondervan, 2020).
The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, 2nd ed., Sanders, F., (Crossway, 2017).
The Triune God, Sanders, F., (Zondervan, 2016).
How God Used R.A. Torrey: A Short Biography as Told Through His Sermons, Sanders, F., (Moody Press, 2015).
John Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love. Sanders, F., (Crossway, 2013).
The Image of the Immanent Trinity: Rahner’s Rule and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, Sanders, F., (Peter Lang, 2005).

Articles

"The Nicene Line as Structural Principle for Christian Doctrine,” Sanders, F., International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2025
“Incorruptible Trinity: Sketch of a Doctrine,” Sanders, F., The Masters’ Seminary Journal, March 2022.
“Holy Scripture Under the Auspices of the Holy Trinity: On John Webster’s Trinitarian Doctrine of Scripture,” Sanders, F., International Journal of Systematic Theology, January 2019.
“Evangelical Trinitarianism and the Unity of the Theological Disciplines,” Sanders, F., Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2017.
“Biblical Grounding for the Christology of the Councils,” Sanders, F., Criswell Theological Review, September 2015.
“Redefining Progress in Trinitarian Theology: Stephen R. Holmes on the Trinity,” Sanders, F., Evangelical Quarterly, January 2014.
“A Name, Names, and Half a Name,” Sanders, F., Pro Ecclesia, January 2014.
“Saved by Word and Spirit: The Shape of Soteriology in Donald Bloesch’s Christian Foundations,” Sanders, F. Midwestern Journal of Theology, 2014.
“Honest to God, a Voice from Heaven? Communicative Theism in Vanhoozer’s Remythologizing Theology,” Sanders, F., Southeastern Theological Review, 2013.
“Trinitarian Theology’s Exegetical Basis: A Dogmatic Survey,” Sanders, F., Midwestern Journal of Theology, March 2010.

Book Chapters

“Only Begotten Son: The Doctrinal Functions of Eternal Generation,” in On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God, Sanders, F., ed. Barrett, M. (IVP Academic, 2024), pp. 419-46.
“Pauline Trinitarianism,” in The Trinity in the Canon: A Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Practical Proposal, Sanders, F., ed. Smith, B.D. (B&H Academic, 2023), pp. 245-72.
“Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Theology,” in Theology for the Future: The Enduring Promise of Wolfhart Pannenberg, Sanderes, F., ed. Hollingsworth, A. (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021), pp. 103-17.
“The Triune God,” in A Companion to the Theology of John Webster, Sanders, F., ed. Allen M. and Nelson, R.D. (Eerdmans, 2021), pp. 146-58.
“William Burt Pope (1822-1903): Primary and Secondary Creation,” in Science and the Doctrine of Creation: The Approaches of Ten Modern Theologians, Sanders, F., ed. Fulkerson, G.H. and Chopp, J.T. (IVP Academic, 2021), pp. 13-34.
“Ecclesiology and the Doctrine of the Trinity,” in The T&T Clark Companion to Ecclesiology, Sanders, F., ed. Bender, K.J. and Long, D.S. (Bloomsbury, 2020), pp 311-22.
“Undiminished, Transcendent, and Relevant: Joseph Ratzinger on Teaching on the Trinity,” in Benedict XVI: An Evangelical Appreciation of the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger, Sanders, F., ed. Perry, T. (Lexham Press, 2019), pp. 136-51.
“Wesleyan View,” in Five Views of the Extent of the Atonement, Sanders, F., ed. Johnson, A. (Zondervan, 2019), pp. 156-76.
“Back to the Trinity,” in Theologies of Retrieval: An Exploration and Appraisal, Sanders, F., ed. Sarisky, D. (T&T Clark, 2017), pp. 213-28.
“These Three Atone: Atonement and the Trinity,” in The T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement, Sanders, F., ed. Johnson, A. (T&T Clark, 2017), pp. 19-34.