Eternal submission of the Son – bibliography

The literature (especially online literature dating from 2016 onwards) is huge.

Here, however, is a selection.

Books

Bird, Michael F. and Harrower, Scott (eds). Trinity Without Hierarchy. Kregel, 2020.

Byrd, Aimee. Recovering From Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Zondervan, 2020. (Not primarily about ESS, but of some relevance, given Byrd’s involvement in the debate)

Butner, D. Glenn, Jnr: The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son. Pickwick, 2018.

Erickson, Millard J. Who’s Tampering with the Trinity: An Assessment of the Subordination Debate. Kregel, 2009.

Giles, Kevin. The Trinity & Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God & the Contemporary Gender Debate. IVP, 2002.

Giles, Kevin. Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity. Zondervan, 2006.

Giles, Kevin. The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology. IVP, 2012.

Giles, Kevin. The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity. Cascade Books, 2017.

Grudem, Wayne. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. 1994/2020. Of note (or notariety, for some) due to Grudem’s advoacy of ESS.

Jowers, Dennis W. and House, H. Wayne (eds). The New Evangelical Subordinationism?: Perspectives on the Equality of God the Father and God. Pickwick, 2012.

Routley, Jonathan. Eternal Submission. Wipf and Stock, 2019.

Sanders, Fred and Swain, Scott R. (eds). Retrieving Eternal Generation. Zondervan, 2017.

Ware, Bruce A. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance. Crossway, 2005.

Ware, Bruce A. and Starke, John (eds). One God in Three Persons. Crossway, 2014.

Articles and web pages

Alsup, Wendy. The Eternal Subordination of the Son (and Women). (June 14th, 2016). Of interest because it attempts to explain (with some discussion) why, despite protestations to the contrary, some people think that Grudem and Ware do teach an ontological, and not merely a functional, subordination of the Son to the Father.

Arsenal, Tony: Socinianism, Divine Simplicity, and the Eternal Functional Subordination Controversy (Dec 4th, 2017)

Bilezikian, Gilbert: “Hermeneutical Bungee-Jumping: Subordination in the Godhead,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 40.1 (March 1997): 57-68.

Bird, Michael, Functional Subordination within the Trinity. (2006)

Boyd, Duncan. Is the Son of God Eternally Subordinate to the Father? (2018)

Boyd, Duncan. The Coequal Godhead of the Father and the Son. (2018)

Burk, Denny – A brief response to Trueman and Goligher

Burk, Denny, My Take-Away’s From the Trinity Debate. (August 10, 2016)

Butner, Glenn: Against Eternal Submission.

Butner, Glenn: Eternal Submission and the Story of the Seven Ecumenical Councils

Butner, Glenn: Does the Son Eternally Submit to the Father? Methodological Considerations. Part 1 (July 10th, 2019); Part 2 (July 11th, 2019)

Byrd, Aimee, Strachan’s Rebranding of ESS is Not “Thunderously Good” (May 9th, 2019)

Byrd, Aimee, What Denny Burk Could Do. (August 11, 2016)

Cowan, Christopher, ‘The Father and Son in the Fourth Gospel: Johannine Subordination Revisited.’ JETS 49/1 (March 2006) 115–35

DeYoung, Kevin. Distinguishing Among the Three Persons of the Trinity within the Reformed Tradition. (2016)

Grudem, Wayne. “Biblical Evidence for the Eternal Submission of the Son to the Father” [published in The New Evangelical Subordinationism? edited by Dennis W. Jowers and H. Wayne House (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012), 223-261.]

Grudem, Wayne: Another Thirteen Evangelical Theologians Who Affirm The Eternal Submission of the Son to the Father. (2016)

ETS 2016 – Submission and Subordination in the Trinity – conference audio files

Grudem, Wayne: Why a denial of the Son’s eternal submission threatens both the Trinity and the Bible (Notes of address given at ETS: San Antonio: Nov. 15, 2016.

Giles, Kevin: The Nicene and Reformed doctrine of the Trinity (Text of address given at ETS, Nov, 15, 2016.

Giles, Kevin, and Letham, Robert: The Holy Trinity in Scripture, history, theology and worship A review article with response. Evangelical Quarterly, 78.1 (2006), 85-94.

Giles, Kevin. The Evangelical Theological Society and the doctrine of the Trinity. Evangelical Quarterly, 80.4 (2008). 323-338.

Giles, Kevin. Rejoinder to Robert Letham. Evangelical Quarterly, 80.4 (2008), 347-348.

Giles, Kevin. The Doctrine of the Trinity and Subordination. (2004)

Goligher, Liam: Is it OK to Teach a Complementarianism Based on Eternal Subordination? Part I, Part II.

Goligher, Liam. A letter to Professors Grudem and Ware.

Goligher, Liam. Dr Liam Goligher responds to Dr Mike Ovey.

Gons, Phil: Warfield on Eternal Subordination in the Trinity

Johnston, E.A.: Intra-trinitarian Subordination: Reflections on the Ontological Relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Johnson, Keith E. Trinitarian Agency and the Eternal Subordination of the Son: An Augustinian Perspective. Themelios, Vol 36:1.

Jones, Mark: God’s Will and Eternal Submission. Part 1, Part 2.

Keener, Craig S.: Is subordination within the Trinity really heresy? A study of John 5:18 in context. Trinity Journal; Spring 1999; 20, 1.

Kovach, Stephen, “Egalitarians revamp doctrine of the Trinity Bilezikian, Grenz and the Kroegers Deny Eternal Subordination of the Son,” CBMW News 2.1 (Dec. 1996): 1, 3-5.

Kovach, Stephen D. and Schemm, Jr, Peter R. A defense of the doctrine of the eternal subordination of the Son. JETS 42/3 (September 1999) 461–476

The Doctrine of the Trinity and its Bearing on the Relationship between Men and Women (Sydney Diocesan Doctrine Report, 2002)

MzEllen: Craig Keener on Subordinationism

McGeown, Martyn: The error of eternal functional subordination: an evangelical debate –

MacLeod, Donald Subordinationism (out of the blue!)

Mason, Brad: The Semi-Arianism of ESS Arguments and other posts

Miller, Rachel, Continuing Down This Path, Complementarians Lose. (May 22nd, 2015). Miller’s article accepts Jared Moore’s understanding that the authors of the book One God, Three Persons (Ware and Starke, eds.) teach subordination within the immanent (ontological) – not just the economic – Trinity. Miller states that she has read ‘portions’ of the book; however, she seems to quote only from Moore’s article. It would have been better if both she and Moore had taken note of the full title of the book: One God, Three Persons: Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life (my emphasis).

Miller, Rachel, Does the Son Eternally Submit to the Authority of the Father. (May 28th, 2015). In this critique of Grudem, Miller continues to conflate submission within the immanent Trinity and the economic Trinity. Grudem, of course, repeatedly and emphatically insists that the two should be distinguished.

Miller, Rachel. Eternal Subordination of the Son and CBMW. (August 12th 2016)

Mohler, Albert. Heresy and Humility – Lessons from a Current Controversy. (June 28, 2016)

The Trinity and Subordinationism (2002)

Paul, Ian: Evangelicals and the Trinity. (Reproduces the ETS paper by Kevin Giles)

Perriman, Andrew The subordination of the Son, and why it has nothing to do with gender

Perriman, Andrew Trinity, subordination and narrative in Hebrews 1:1-2

Rishwamy, Derek: On Trinitarian controversy: why it’s not always terrible and how to go about it.

Roberts, Alastair: The Eternal Subordination of the Son