Archive for June 2021
Credo Fellow Highlight: James Dolezal
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…
Read MoreConfessing the Holy Spirit in an Age of Biblicism: Michael Haykin and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity based on his new book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). In this podcast, Haykin and Barrett take an honest look at the history of biblicism, showing that evangelicals who embrace biblicism unwittingly adopt the…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Confessing the Holy Spirit in an Age of Biblicism
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity based on his new book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). In this podcast, Haykin and Barrett take an honest look at the history of biblicism, showing that evangelicals who embrace biblicism unwittingly adopt the…
Read MoreBavinck on Historical Criticism: The Search for the Essence of Christianity
In a 1906 article re-published in the volume, Essays on Religion, Science and Society, Herman Bavinck addresses the topic of “The Essence of Christianity.” Adolf von Harnack had delivered his famous lectures on this topic in Berlin in 1900 (ET What is Christianity? 1901). Bavinck sees the search for the essence of Christianity as arising in the eighteenth century…
Read MoreRetrieving an Ancient Sacramental Ecology, Part 3: “On the Dignity of Man” and the New World
If its origins are neither found in the Bible nor in the early church, from where did this notion of “dominion” or “control” of nature come from? Perhaps surprisingly, if not ironically, it is a fairly modern view, and one found among thinkers of the scientific revolution. Science and Religion, Friends or Foes? Some history…
Read MoreThe God Who Doesn’t Take Risks: The Comforting Doctrine of Providence
Here is part of an account of an incident involving General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s chaplain, the Confederate officer, Dr. Robert Lewis Dabney: Dr Dabney rode with General Jackson into the very thickest of the fight, on many a hard fought field. The men used to say of their soldier-preacher, “He does not mind it any…
Read MoreCredo Fellow Highlight: Megan DeVore
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…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Why Should Evangelicals Reject the Eternal Subordination of the Son?
The trinitarian view known as Eternal Functional Subordinationism (EFS) has become a popular position over the last several decades. In this view, the Trinity is defined as a type of society, a society of roles and relationships. What kind of society? A society of hierarchy. One of the central claims of EFS is the Son’s functional…
Read MoreWhy Should Evangelicals Reject the Eternal Subordination of the Son? Michael Bird and Matthew Barrett
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity in view of Barrett’s new book Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit. The trinitarian view known as Eternal Functional Subordinationism (EFS) has become a popular position over the last several decades. In this view, the Trinity…
Read MoreChristians: The Despised Secret-Keepers
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s book reviews by Grace Sutton. The Christian today must be the outdated nerd in the back of the room instead of the most educated lawyer or doctor. Modern society automatically assumes faith in God resigns…
Read MoreRetrieving an Ancient Sacramental Ecology, Part 2: The Cultural Mandate
The doctrine of Creation may be the most basic, fundamental, and even essential doctrine of Christianity—in the sense that if we get creation wrong, everything else about our Christian faith will be marred, flawed, and disfigured. Genesis 1-2 may be the most striking account of creation in the Bible, but there are others (Ps. 8,…
Read MoreCredo Fellow Highlight: Craig A. Carter
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…
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