Archive for December 2022
The Beatific Vision: Featured Articles
The beatific vision is not a doctrine that must be deduced from scripture by good and necessary consequence. For the beatific vision is expressly set down in scripture. Paul calls the beatific vision the church’s blessed hope. John says God’s children shall be like him because they shall see him as he is. And Jesus…
Read MoreA Sideways Glance at the Beatific Vision
“Beatific Vision, file under eschatology.” If a Christian today has heard the phrase beatific vision before, she likely thinks of it as part of the doctrine of the last things: eschatology. There’s no problem with that. Eschatology is the beatific vision’s natural home. That said, Christian theology is a tightly woven net, and no part…
Read MoreFirst Principles: Stretch that he may fill us
You have heard it said, we should not be so heavenly minded that we are of no earthly good. I have yet to meet such a Christian. In my experience most struggle with the opposite imbalance: they are so earthly minded they are of no heavenly good. As a result, holiness lacks luster. Programmed by…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine: The Beatific Vision
The new issue of Credo Magazine is here! The Beatific Vision The beatific vision is not a doctrine that must be deduced from scripture by good and necessary consequence. For the beatific vision is expressly set down in scripture. Paul calls the beatific vision the church’s blessed hope. John says God’s children shall be like…
Read MoreThe new issue of Credo Magazine is here! The Beatific Vision
The new issue of Credo Magazine is here! The Beatific Vision The beatific vision is not a doctrine that must be deduced from scripture by good and necessary consequence. For the beatific vision is expressly set down in scripture. Paul calls the beatific vision the church’s blessed hope. John says God’s children shall be like…
Read MoreFirst Principles: 25 Myths about Thomas Aquinas
The latest issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Thomas Aquinas. The following is one of the issue’s featured columns by Executive Editor, Matthew Barrett. Who’s afraid of Thomas Aquinas? Years ago, I walked into a theology bookstore and asked the owner if he had any books by Thomas in his collection. “I would never carry anything…
Read MoreProvidence and the Problem of Evil
I am pleased to be writing a short introduction to the doctrine of providence for Crossway. It will be part of their “Short Studies in Systematic Theology” series, which is designed to introduce systematic theology in short studies of individual doctrines. I have become convinced during my study of this topic that there is no…
Read MoreCan the church fathers help us interpret the Bible?
What obstacles do we have to overcome when interpreting the Bible? What do the fathers say about our disposition as interpreters when approaching the text? In what sense do the fathers read the Old Testament Christologically? In this Credo Video, Craig Carter explains how the church fathers inform our hermeneutic. Listen to Carter as he…
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