Archive for October 2021
Author’s Corner: Catholic University of America
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 MoreHow To Correct Your Opponents Like Paul
Heresy-hunting gets a bad rap nowadays. If there’s one thing that nobody wants to be, it’s a “heresy-hunter.” And who can blame them? I mean, cruise around the Internet and you’ll find any number of “discernment” ministries dedicated to finding anybody who doesn’t line up with their particular, historically-contingent, possibly cultish understanding of Christianity and placing…
Read MoreWhy Must God be One to be Three? Matthew Levering and Matthew Barrett Discuss Divine Simplicity
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. According to philosopher Ronald Nash, the doctrine of divine simplicity has a PR problem. However, contrary to the claims of its opponents, the belief that God is one is essential to biblical Christianity and classical theism. Quite…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Can the past help us live less anxiously in the present?
The tyranny of the present is a cruel evil. For many, the routine to-do’s and the barrage of breaking news renders us numb to anything outside our immediate field of vision. While the present moment is indeed important, we must remember that it is still merely a moment. As moments come and go, the future…
Read MoreCan the past help us live less anxiously in the present? Matthew Barrett and Alan Jacobs
The tyranny of the present is a cruel evil. For many, the routine to-do’s and the barrage of breaking news renders us numb to anything outside our immediate field of vision. While the present moment is indeed important, we must remember that it is still merely a moment. As moments come and go, the future…
Read MoreOn Catholic Baptists: The London Baptist Confession of Faith
The latest issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Confessions every Christian should read. The following is one of the issue’s featured articles by Geoff Change. Dr. Chang serves as Assistant Professor of Church History and Historical Theology and the Curator of the Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Are creeds still useful today? For many…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner: T&T Clark
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 MoreThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Trinity: Fred Sanders, Matthew Barrett, and the Dangers of Conflation
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this video, Fred Sanders and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 4 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Sanders and Barrett explore the way the missions reveal the processions of the…
Read MoreRelational Theism versus the Transcendent Creator
The book Divine Attributes: Knowing the Covenantal God of Scripture by John C. Peckham (Baker Academic, 2021) is an excellent example of Evangelical biblicism in the tradition of Wayne Grudem and twentieth century analytic philosophy. It exemplifies the kind of biblicism that became dominant in twentieth century Evangelicalism and is slowly becoming fully detached from confessional orthodoxy.…
Read MoreReformation Fire in England: The Thirty-Nine Articles
The latest issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Confessions every Christian should read. The following is one of the issue’s featured articles by Gerald Bray. Dr. Bray is Research Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion were first composed (as Forty-two Articles) in 1553, and after two revisions reached their final…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine: We Believe
The new issue of Credo Magazine is here! We Believe: Confessions Every Christian Should Read If holy scripture is sufficient and authoritative, why do we need confessions? Retrieving the time-tested wisdom of the church’s confessions does not contradict but complements a high view of scripture. Confessions, at their best, serve to keep the church faithful, holding…
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