Archive for August 2021
Eavesdrop 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, the conversations have revolved around important topics concerning who God is in himself. Some of the issues that have been covered include divine perfection, God’s goodness, free will, and natural theology. For more teaching on the doctrine…
Read MoreThe Christian Creeds: An Introduction
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the creeds of the Christian Faith. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured columns by Rhyne R. Putman. Dr. Putman presently serves as associate vice president of academic affairs at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, and as associate professor of theology at…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Each week on Credo we welcome you to join us in the Author’s Corner where we will meet a set of authors whose recent books deserve your attention and might even help you grow in your knowledge of theology, history, philosophy, and the scriptures. We hope the Author’s Corner can keep you up-to-date on the…
Read MoreRaised the Third Day According the Scriptures: A Premodern Approach to Interpreting Genesis 22:4
In this brief article I want to make some comments on Genesis 22, the binding of Isaac. I assume you are familiar with the story; if not read Genesis 22:1-19 before reading any further. Sacred Scripture is its Own Interpreter First, I want to make the point that the narrative is interpreted for us by…
Read MorePraying for the Nations in Reformation Europe
How we understand the church’s missionary past has everything to do with how we will proclaim Christ to the nations right now. If the great theologians and practitioners of our ecclesiastical tradition—whoever they are—taught that our Lord had commissioned his church to share the gospel with all people, then we who live downstream of them…
Read MoreWhere is God’s Goodness in a Hell-bent World? Christopher Holmes and Matthew Barrett
You are good and do good; teach me your statutes (Psalm 119:68). When we read, sing, and meditate on the Psalms, we are confronted with an abundance of references to God’s goodness. But it seems that today many find it all too easy to overlook the goodness of God. Yet the constant echoes of God’s goodness…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Where is God’s Goodness in a Hell-bent World?
You are good and do good; teach me your statutes (Psalm 119:68). When we read, sing, and meditate on the Psalms, we are confronted with an abundance of references to God’s goodness. But it seems that today many find it all too easy to overlook the goodness of God. Yet the constant echoes of God’s goodness…
Read MoreFirst Principles: A most subtle skepticism
It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. –G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Today we are experiencing a surge of renewed interest in retrieval. However encouraging that resurgence may be—and it certainly is reassuring—a lingering, even nagging hesitation remains…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Each week on Credo we welcome you to join us in the Author’s Corner where we will meet a set of authors whose recent books deserve your attention and might even help you grow in your knowledge of theology, history, philosophy, and the scriptures. We hope the Author’s Corner can keep you up-to-date on the…
Read MoreCredo Fellow Recap
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 MoreThe Eternal Generation of the Son
Many in the church today have never heard about the doctrine of eternal generation. But did you know that the early church believed this doctrine was absolutely essential to a biblical understanding of the Trinity and the deity of the Son? They also believed that eternal generation was indispensable to our salvation. If the Son…
Read MoreWe Are Not Omni-Anything
When Eve ate fruit from a tree and decided that she wanted to be like God, she, and all of us with her, hid from God. The Almighty God, who knows all things, can do all things, and can be everywhere, asked the man, “Where are you?” They answered, and because of their rebellion against…
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