2025 David C. Jones Theology Lectures to Feature Dr. Fred Sanders
Covenant Seminary is pleased to announce that Dr. Fred Sanders will be the featured speaker for the 2025 edition of the Seminary’s David C. Jones Theology Lectures on March 6 and 7 on the Seminary campus. Dr. Sanders, Professor at the Torrey Honors College of Biola University and a faculty member of the Los Angeles Bible Training School, is a systematic theologian whose study and teaching crosses the entire range of classic Christian doctrine, with a primary focus on the doctrine of the Trinity.
Dr. Sanders has taught in Torrey Honors College since 1999 and with the Los Angeles Bible Training School since 2009. He is co-founder of the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, is an amateur historian of Biola university’s institutional history, and maintains an active internet presence via X (formerly Twitter) and his blog (at fredfredfred.com). He is the author of several books, including Union with Christ and the Life of Faith (Baker Academic, 2025), The Holy Spirit: An Introduction (Crossway, 2023), The Triune God (Zondervan, 2016), and Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love (Crossway, 2013), and editor or co-editor of several others.
The David C. Jones Theology Lectures are named in honor of the late Dr. David C. Jones, long-time professor of systematic theology and ethics at Covenant Seminary, who passed away in 2017 (see more about Dr. Jones here). They are intended to honor Dr. Jones’s teaching and influence on generations of our students and to highlight the Seminary’s Reformed theological heritage by focusing each year on a particular area of theological study with presentations by a contemporary academic authority in that area. The lectures were reinstituted in 2024 after a hiatus of several years (see more about the Jones Lectures here).
Dr. Sanders’s lectures will focus on the doctrine of the Son of God, exploring the trinitarian context of Christology and the modes of the Son’s presence in the history of salvation—specifically considering his sending in terms of invisible mission and visible mission
Lecture 1, “The Invisible Mission of the Son,” rehearses the doctrine of the inseparable operations of the Trinity and introduces the doctrine of trinitarian missions according to which the Son and Spirit are properly present to us. In a gracious and revelatory extension of his eternal generation from the Father, the Son himself can be glimpsed before the incarnation and also known in Christian experience today.
Lecture 2, “The Visible Mission of the Son,” focuses on the incarnation of the Son, exploring why it matters that the Son in particular took human nature to himself. The whole Trinity causes human salvation as the one person who is the Son of God wields human nature as an instrument of redemption.
The lectures will take place in Founders Hall, room 342, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, and from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7. The event is free and open to the public.
Questions about the lectures may be directed to Joel Hathaway, Director of Alumni and Career Services, at joel.hathaway@covenantseminary.edu.
