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 were simply assumed to be an integral premise of the Christian faith. Yet modern treatments of the Trinity have left the essential unity of the…
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 at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a pastor at Emmaus Church. Over the last few years, there has been a healthy and needed retrieval of…
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 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 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 his theological and philosophical methods. Nevertheless, contrary to the caricature that has been painted by his detractors, Christians today have much to learn from the…
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 offers: higher even than justification.’[1]It is an amazing truth that when considered for an extended period should humble us and cause rejoicing in the relationship…
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 ended the Wars of Religion, to the death of Kant in 1804. Actually, many things changed and books like Peter Gay’s magisterial, two-volume work on…
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 that “the Trinity is a mystery into which you enter only through prayer and purification, a taste that is acquired and cultivated.” Being the central…
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 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 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 Spirit (Baker, 2021). In this video, Kelly Kapic and Matthew Barrett invite Puritan John Owen to help listeners better understand the implications behind inseparable operations.…
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 four and received this reply, he said to my wife, “Just say, ‘Yes,’ mom, that’s much better.” Yet saying “No,” often feels like better parenting.…
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