

4.30 Kyle Claunch, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • "God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood"
Jul 2, 2025
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ABOUT THE EPISODE
Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Kyle Claunch on his Christ Over All essay: "God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood"
Timestamps
- 00:26 – Intro
- 03:45 – Dr. Wellum’s Highlights of Travel to the UK and Ireland
- 05:56 – Kyle Claunch’s Forthcoming Book
- 07:48 – Where are the Challenges of Feminist Language for God Coming From?
- 17:41 – Analogical, Univocal, and Equivocal Language
- 20:34 – What Does Amy Peeler Argue about God?
- 26:17 – Is there Ever a Non-Metaphorical Language that is Used for God?
- 31:59 – Does EFS Theology Drive Amy Peeler’s View of the Trinity and Metaphorical Language?
- 35:42 – Proper and Figurative Language
- 42:13 – The Value of Being Precise in Our Language Towards God
- 47:31 – The Essential and Personal Nature of God the Father
- 54:57 – How Do These Things Help Us Begin to Reflect the Fatherhood of God?
- 57:49 – Final Thoughts from Dr. Wellum
- 59:41 – Outro
Resources to Click
- “God the Father: Namesake of All Fatherhood”– Kyle Claunch
- “Theological Language and the Fatherhood of God: An Exegetical and Dogmatic Account” – Kyle Claunch
- “On the Improper Use of Proper Speech: A Response to Ronald W. Pierce and Erin M. Heim, ‘Biblical Images of God as Moter and Spiritual Formation’” – Kyle Claunch
- Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
- Give to Support the Work
Books to Read
- Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics – Richard Muller
- Theoretical Practical Divinity, Vol. 2: Faith in the Triune God – Petrus Van Mastricht
- Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2: God and Creation – Herman Bavinck
- Summa Theologiae Book 1 – Thomas Aquinas
- “Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of Christian Tradition,” in Baptists and the Christian Tradition – ed. Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan & R. Lucas Stamps
- John Gill’s Commentary of the First Letter of John – John Gill
- She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse – Elizabeth A. Johnson
- Women and the Gender of God – Amy Peeler
- Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives – eds. Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, et. al
- The Father and the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender – Spencer Miles Boersma
- The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology – Adonis Vidu
- On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God – eds. Matthew Barrett and Todd Billings