Archive for February 2023
Podcast Throwback: Should We Interpret the Bible Theologically?
Is it possible to approach the text of Scripture neutral, without a theological framework? What dangers exist in neglecting theology in the exegetical process? Should creeds and confessions throughout the…
Read MoreThe Beatific Vision and Augustine
The visio dei—vision of God—or often rendered as the beatific vision consists of seeing God. The beatific vision consists of living, experiencing happiness, and true blessedness. The beatific description of…
Read MoreMethodological Naturalism and Divine Inspiration
According to the confession of the Christian church, the Bible is an inspired book. This is the inescapable fact confronting anyone who wants to interpret the Bible. All agree that…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast! Can we be Reformed and Scholastic?
Reformed and Scholastic are often considered antithetical to one another, as if the use of the scholastic method or the retrieval of its philosophy and theology is a betrayal of…
Read MoreCan we be Reformed and Scholastic?
Reformed and Scholastic are often considered antithetical to one another, as if the use of the scholastic method or the retrieval of its philosophy and theology is a betrayal of…
Read MoreOn Reading
Words cascade across the page and deluge our eyes as we try to take them all in. Such a flood often overwhelms students who try to stay afloat amidst the…
Read MoreThe Natural Desire of Human Beings for Beatitude
Thomas Aquinas holds that human beings have a natural desire for beatitude with God in the next life. Yet the attainment of this beatitude is beyond natural human intellectual powers. …
Read MoreMagic, Good Spells, and Poetry in Service of Praise: Part 2
This is why describing what happens when words come together to communicate truth, goodness, and beauty as magic is not an exaggeration. There is a deep, metaphysical correspondence between language…
Read MoreMagic, Good Spells, and Poetry in Service of Praise: Part 1
I do not read nearly as much poetry as I ought, but I read enough to know it is nourishing to the soul. There is something about poetry that allows…
Read MoreThe Credo Fellow Bookclub with Scott Swain
Credo Fellow Scott Swain (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is President and James Woodrow Hassell Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Swain has served…
Read MoreChristians Need to See God
Theology in the Bible is always pastoral. It is spoken into the real circumstances of life. Scripture contains laws for a real nation, prophecies for real exiles and epistles for…
Read MoreLearning to Read a Confession of Faith in Historical Context
It is often said that the three most important rules to purchasing real estate are location, location, location. A similar maxim is true for good historical theology—context, context, context. The…
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