Credo is Latin for “I believe.” From the creeds of the Church Fathers to the confessions of the Reformation, Christians have been faithful to confess the faith once for all delivered to the saints. Credo retrieves this classical and reformational heritage in order to create and cultivate theological renewal today. By bridging the gap between church and academy, Credo helps churchgoers, pastors, and students alike learn theology and retrieve orthodoxy for the sake of Christian fidelity today.
However, a team effort is required if the church and academy alike are to remain faithful to this orthodox faith, a team that spans denominations and brings together some of today’s most outstanding theologians, pastors, and writers. I am pleased to announce and welcome for the first time the Credo Fellows, each of which embodies the spirit of Credo in their own teaching and writing ministries. Below you will find a brief introduction to each Credo Fellow and in the days ahead you will hear more about their passions, from the halls of patristic and medieval history to the corridors of dogmatics and classical literature. Look to hear their voices on the Credo podcast and do anticipate reading more about them in Credo Magazine.
Matthew Barrett, executive editor
Gwenfair Walters Adams (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Professor of Church History, Chair of the Division of Christian Thought, and Director of the M.A. of Spiritual Formation at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Dr. Adams’ specialties in Church History are focused on Medieval and Reformation studies. Her book, Visions in Late Medieval England: Lay Spirituality and Sacred Glimpses of the Hidden Worlds of Faith (E.J. Brill, 2007), explores the impact of visionary accounts in sermons, saints’ legends, and religious instruction manuals on the worldview and piety of the medieval laity. She also edited the Romans 1-8 volume in the Reformation Commentary on Scripture series(Intervarsity Press, 2019). She has additional research interests on the impact of monasticism on Reformation spirituality; C. S. Lewis and mythology; the shaping power of story on theology; and the history of the expression of the gospel.
Megan DeVore (Ph.D., University of Wales) is Associate Professor of Church History and Early Christian Studies at Colorado Christian University. With training in Patristic to Medieval Historical Theology and Church History, as well as in art history, philosophy, and Classics, Dr. DeVore teaches a variety of courses in the Department of Theology, such as the History of Christianity, Historical Theology I, Canon Formation, Introduction to Philosophy, and Latin, as well as an occasional course for the department of Humanities, such as Roman Empire to Early Medieval World. She is the author of numerous articles and publications and occasionally serves as the guest speaker at various women’s spiritual retreats or classes for the local church.
Adonis Vidu (Ph.D., University of Nottingham) is Professor of theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is a constructive theologian involved in a recovery of the patristic and medieval Trinitarian theology for the contemporary church, with an eye to its conceptual clarity and validity. Having done previous work in theological epistemology (Theology After Neo-Pragmatism, Wipf & Stock, 2009), hermeneutics (Postliberal Theological Method, Wipf & Stock, 2005), and the doctrine of the atonement (Atonement, Law, and Justice, Baker, 2014), his latest research focuses on recovery, clarification, and defense of the ancient rule of the inseparable operations of the Trinity (The Same God Who Works All Things, Eerdmans, 2021). This project also generates a fundamental rethinking of several loci of systematic theology through the doctrine of ‘divine missions.’ Dr. Vidu is married to Adriana, and they have one daughter, Hannah. He also served as an elder at Grace Chapel, Lexington.