Archive for December 2021
New Credo Podcast! Inseparable Operations: Good News for Salvation?
The external works of the Trinity are undivided. Until recently, this statement was an uncontroversial affirmation of the doctrine of inseparable operations. In fact, for nearly two millennia, inseparable operations…
Read MoreGod Works in Us What He Is: Imitation and Participation in the Happiness of God
The latest issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Confessions every Christian should read. The following is one of the issue’s featured book reviews by Joseph Lanier. Joseph is a PhD student…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner
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…
Read MoreThe First Way
The Summa Theologiae is one of the most influential works of Christian Theology ever written. Yet many people today are unfamiliar with Thomas Aquinas and his works while others remain skeptical of…
Read MoreThe Trinitarian Beauty of Adoption: The Father
Certain statements grab our imagination. For me, J.I. Packer’s assertion about the doctrine of adoption has provoked much thoughtful reflection. He wrote that adoption ‘is the highest privilege the gospel…
Read MoreDivine Transcendence and the Nature of History: How Philosophical Naturalism Changes the Doctrine of God
Something very big changed in the history of Western intellectual thought during the period of the European Enlightenment, which can be dated from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which…
Read More10 Questions with Adonis Vidu: An interview about our Triune God, Teaching Theology, and the Local Church
The Trinity is not a cold concept of speculative knowledge. Nor is it a doctrine that is only able to be understood by the spiritual elites. Rather, Adonis Vidu argues…
Read MoreAuthor’s Corner
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…
Read MoreCan We Have Communion with the Trinity? Kelly Kapic 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…
Read MoreWhat Isaiah’s prophecies can teach our children this Advent season
If you’ve had kids and know how they make all sorts of requests, then you’ll also know the favorite parental answer: “Maybe; we’ll see.” When one of our sons was…
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