Archive for December 2020
For us, and our salvation, He came down – An Athanasian Sonnet for Advent
In recent months, I’ve been re-reading a fourth century masterpiece. While Athanasius’s On the Incarnation is remarkable, it was C. S. Lewis who termed it a ‘masterpiece’ in his famous introduction to a new English translation of Athanasius’s work. As I read through the first three chapters of De Incarnatione Verbi Dei, I started summarizing…
Read MoreA Christian Case for the Importance of History
Americans are a present-minded people. In his wonderful new book Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs estimates that 98 percent of us “are wholly creatures of this particular intersection in space-time, and can’t be made to care about anything else.” I suspect the actual percentage is higher. I’ve spent the last third of a…
Read MoreThe Bulwark of Trinitarian Theology
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the eternal generation of the Son. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with Griffin Gulledge. Gulledge is a Ph.D. student in systematic theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a proud alumnus of Auburn University and Beeson Divinity School at…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Is the God of the Bible the God of the Philosophers?
It is not uncommon to hear some Christians today pit the God of the Bible against the “god of the philosophers.” It is assumed that the philosophers reasoned their way to a cold, inert, static, indifferent, and impersonal Being who resembles little the loving, covenant-making God of the Bible. They are distinct, and never the…
Read MoreIs the God of the Bible the God of the Philosophers?
It is not uncommon to hear some Christians today pit the God of the Bible against the “god of the philosophers.” It is assumed that the philosophers reasoned their way to a cold, inert, static, indifferent, and impersonal Being who resembles little the loving, covenant-making God of the Bible. They are distinct, and never the…
Read MoreThe Athanasian Creed
It is sometimes said that you cannot describe the Trinity without committing some sort of heresy. Either you make God out to be three gods, or you make the three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) into a sham and pretense. The reason for this is that to speak about God, to speak about the…
Read MoreThe Resurrection as a Landmark in Acts
The book of Acts is one of the longest and most wide-ranging books in the New Testament. It covers a span of about 30 years, from Jesus’s ascension to Paul’s imprisonment in Rome. Readers are taken on a journey from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, all the way to the center of the Roman empire.…
Read MoreGod the Son and the Covenant of Grace
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the eternal generation of the Son. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with R. Scott Clark. Clark (DPhil Oxford University) was a minister in the Reformed Church in the United States (1988–1998) and has been a minister in the United Reformed Churches in…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine: Eternal Generation
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here! Eternal Generation The eternal generation of the Son has fallen on hard times. In the last century, evangelicals have dispensed with the doctrine in the spirit of a narrow biblicism—We just believe the Bible! Others have thrown out the doctrine because they cannot master the mystery…
Read MoreNew Issue of Credo Magazine: Eternal Generation
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here! Eternal Generation. The eternal generation of the Son has fallen on hard times. In the last century, evangelicals have dispensed with the doctrine in the spirit of a narrow biblicism—We just believe the Bible! Others have thrown out the doctrine because they cannot master the mystery…
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