Michael M. Volpe was born and raised in Brooklyn and moved to upstate New York before attending Nyack College, graduating with a major in Bible and a minor in philosophy. He then attended Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in South Carolina for a season, followed by Cranmer Theological House in Louisiana before deciding he was not called to the pastorate. 

Instead, he was burdened with a passion for theology and philosophy that led him to a lifelong thirst to understand and complete a seed of an idea planted in his heart of a necessity for Christ derived from the Trinity being a self-contained thought honoring Himself in love. This passion was birthed by God alone, reared through reading of the Scriptures and made richer by perpetual and continued study of many faiths and deep dives into some of the greatest theologians and philosophers who ever lived. His yearning and voracious appetite to study and understand led him to write the book Commemorative Justice (a term Volpe denotes for God giving His own due in self-love by being a Trinity). 

Because of the controversial meaning of the thesis and its implication, Michael expects critics and naysayers, but he is undeterred. Armed and ready to defend the fact that God as the Potter loved Himself in the Trinity before the foundation of the world, first and foremost, and that man’s place as clay (whether a vessel of wrath or a vessel for good use) is an outpouring of that vehement love, a display, and a gift amongst Themselves to Themselves in and for Jesus Christ. Never did man move God to produce a plan of redemption because Adam made a fatal choice but because Jesus Christ was demonstrating that God would go to hell and back for Himself and then secondarily for His elect. 

Michael lives in rural South Carolina with his bride and has two grown children. When not reading and writing he’s outdoors working his land and playing catch with Raleigh their GSP.

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