Archive for October 2022
Contemplating Divine Realities
When attempting to explain the relation between faith and vision, many theologians have appealed to some account of “contemplation” (θεωρία, theōria) to wed the movements of reason in this life to its rest in the next. The difficulty with the concept of contemplation is just how varied, and sometimes elusive, treatments of it are. That…
Read MoreThe Credo Fellow Bookclub with Adonis Vidu
Credo Fellow Adonis Vidu is Professor of theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is a constructive theologian involved in a recovery of the patristic and medieval Trinitarian theology for the contemporary church, with an eye to its conceptual clarity and validity. Having done previous work in theological epistemology, hermeneutics, and the doctrine of the atonement,…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast! How can the man of sorrows be impassible?
The doctrine of God’s impassibility may seem counterintuitive to many Christians today, but actually, impassibility is an essential belief of Christian orthodoxy. Impassibility was not only affirmed in the great confessions of faith throughout church history, but also defended as vital to the doctrine of God itself. But how does a theologian reconcile divine impassibility…
Read MoreHow can the man of sorrows be impassible? Steven J. Duby and Matthew Barrett
The doctrine of God’s impassibility may seem counterintuitive to many Christians today, but actually, impassibility is an essential belief of Christian orthodoxy. Impassibility was not only affirmed in the great confessions of faith throughout church history, but also defended as vital to the doctrine of God itself. But how does a theologian reconcile divine impassibility…
Read MoreCan Theology Do Without Metaphysics? Part I
The death of Immanuel Kant in 1804 was a watershed in the history of Western philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, political theory and ethics. After Kant, the classical heritage of Plato and Aristotle, the founders of the wisdom tradition called metaphysics, ceased to be foundational for Western thinking about the nature of the good, God, right, politics,…
Read MoreSenses and Sensibility
Every interpreter comes to Scripture with presuppositions. There is no such thing as a neutral Bible reader. And since we are not the first to read the Bible, we will benefit from asking what those who have gone before us have assumed about the Sacred Text. If we ignore the cloud of witnesses in the…
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