Archive for May 2019
Just Words? Paul Helm’s New Book on Revelation and Scripture (part 2)
Paul Helm’s new book, Just Words?, helps us understand a foundational part of Christian doctrine: Revelation. The book is unashamedly and delightfully doctrinal in nature. ‘Doctrine’ is the body of truths that are affirmed by Christians as comprising the fundamental truths of the Faith. We need to be aware of the framework of doctrine because…
Read MoreJust Words? Paul Helm’s New Book on Revelation and Scripture (part 1)
Paul Helm’s new book, Just Words?, helps us understand a foundational part of Christian doctrine: Revelation. The book is unashamedly and delightfully doctrinal in nature. ‘Doctrine’ is the body of truths that are affirmed by Christians as comprising the fundamental truths of the Faith. We need to be aware of the framework of doctrine because…
Read MoreDoctrine for Life: Recent Episodes from the Credo Video Series
In the last several episodes of the Credo Video series, a range of doctrinal topics have been covered, including divine authorial intent in biblical interpretation, divine impassibility, divine immutability, divine perfection, patristic influence on interpretation, and the doctrine of God in biblical interpretation. In each episode, fellow theologians talk about the most important doctrines of…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage William Perkins
Few men of such fame in their lifetime have been so widely forgotten with the passing of time as William Perkins (1558–1602). Given his popularity as a preacher, he was appointed in 1584 as lecturer at Great St. Andrew’s Church in Cambridge, and was elected around the same time to a fellowship at Christ’s College.…
Read MoreChrist’s Descent to the Dead and Classical Christian Doctrine
Theology is a whole cloth, an intricately woven fabric. When we pull on or cut out one thread, we necessarily change the way the rest of the fabric looks. Sometimes we even destroy the entire fabric just by trying to remove one thread.[1] Over the last thirty years or so, in an impulse that stretches…
Read MoreEavesdrop on a Theological Conversation: Recent Episodes of the Credo Podcast
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of theology? In the last several episodes of the Credo Podcast, a range of doctrinal issues have been covered, including God as the perfect being and the modern domestication of God, justification in the Old Testament, the relationship between biblical and systematic theology, Sovereign grace according to the…
Read MoreGod Without Weakness: Paul Helm Explains Why Impassibility Matters
The new issue of Credo Magazine has arrived: The Impassibility of God. The following is an excerpt from our feature interview with Reformed philosopher and theologian Paul Helm, in which we discuss why he is persuaded that impassibility is an attribute essential to God. Paul Helm taught philosophy at the University of Liverpool and was appointed to the…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
I trust none of my fellow ministers need to be convinced to read The Pilgrim’s Progress devotionally. You know its place and importance in the canon of spiritual classics. You’ve read it yourself. You’ve recommended it to others. You’ve alluded to it in sermons. You may have even taught it to a small group, a…
Read MoreThe Trinity according to Augustine
How does Augustine retrieve and build upon the Trinitarian theology that came before him? How does Augustine’s understanding of the Trinity set the trajectory in the west for all theologians who come after him? How do we articulate the Trinity without compromising the one essence? How do we understand the three persons in relation to…
Read MoreThe Trinity according to Augustine: New Credo podcast episode with Matthew Levering
How does Augustine retrieve and build upon the Trinitarian theology that came before him? How does Augustine’s understanding of the Trinity set the trajectory in the west for all theologians who come after him? How do we articulate the Trinity without compromising the one essence? How do we understand the three persons in relation to…
Read MoreWould the Real Catholic Church Please Stand Up: What Remains at Stake 500 Years After the Reformation
The latest issue of Credo Magazine focuses on The Impassibility of God. The following excerpt is from Korey Maas’ book review, which records what remains at stake five-hundred years after the Reformation. Korey D. Maas (DPhil, University of Oxford) is Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College. Though pejoratives such as “papist” and “Romanist” have largely become…
Read MoreOn Reading Scripture Well: Some Recommended Resources on Hermeneutics
Alongside prayer and corporate worship, reading Scripture is at the top of the list when it comes to Christian spiritual disciplines. God addresses us in his Word, and so it is paramount that we understand his Word correctly. The field of hermeneutics considers what it means to read well, and below are some of my…
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