Archive for May 2022
New Credo Podcast! How can liturgy create a healthy church?
Liturgy is to the church like oxygen is to the lungs. Unfortunately, churches today can be suspicious towards liturgy, as if it is devoid of the heart. But for most of history the church has turned to liturgy as a vital part of worship. As the Reformers considered how to reform the church, for example, they…
Read MoreHow can liturgy create a healthy church? Jonathan Gibson and Matthew Barrett
Liturgy is to the church like oxygen is to the lungs. Unfortunately, churches today can be suspicious towards liturgy, as if it is devoid of the heart. But for most of history the church has turned to liturgy as a vital part of worship. As the Reformers considered how to reform the church, for example, they…
Read MoreThe Divine Brilliance: Recovering the Platonic-Thomistic (or Christian) Tradition of Beauty
The latest issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Christian Platonism. The following is one of the issue’s featured columns by Alice Ramos. Dr. Ramos is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. In his work On Music, St. Augustine of Hippo asks, “Do we love anything but the beautiful?” (6.13.38). This question…
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 Divine Attributes
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 MoreAn Excellent Model for How to Do Historical Theology
The Spirit of the Age: The 19th Century Debate Over the Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession focusses attention on one, relatively minor, theological controversy that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century in American Presbyterianism. In 1903 the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, the main Presbyterian body in the US at…
Read MorePodcast Throwback: The Trinity according to Augustine
How does Augustine retrieve and build upon the Trinitarian theology that came before him? How does Augustine’s understanding of the Trinity set the trajectory in the west for all theologians who come after him? How do we articulate the Trinity without compromising the one essence? How do we understand the three persons in relation to…
Read MoreIt’s All in Lewis, All in Lewis, Bless me!
It is no exaggeration to say that the vast majority of evangelical Christians today recognize the name of C. S. Lewis. It is also no exaggeration to say that the vast majority of evangelical Christians today would not have the slightest familiarity with the idea of “Christian Platonism.” And yet, I have been tasked to…
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