Archive for March 2023
The Credo Fellow Bookclub with Carl R. Trueman
Credo Fellow Carl R. Trueman (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He is an esteemed church historian and previously served as the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University. His current research interests include the rise and impact of…
Read MoreDante’s Divine Comedy
Dante’s Divine Comedy is a literary masterpiece that continues to captivate readers with its vivid depictions of the afterlife and its profound theological insights. As a work of Christian literature, it offers a unique vision of God’s justice and mercy as it invites readers to contemplate the ultimate destination of human souls. Through complex allegories…
Read More10 Questions with Hans Boersma
Lots of Christians regularly pray, read the Bible, attend worship services, and take the Lord’s Supper. But how many of them still struggle to articulate exactly how it is that they enjoy communion with the Triune God? Thanks to the excellent theological retrieval done by Hans Boersma and others, Christians are being urged to reconsider…
Read MoreWho is Sufficient for These Things? Of Sinners, Theologians, and the Question of Cancelation
In a turn of events that should surprise no one at all, my recent reflections on Barth and theological consecration was met with mixed reactions. A whole two minutes passed before “what about Martin Luther King Jr.?” and “what about Edwards?” began to fill my timeline. These questions are, in my estimation, entirely fair game.…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast! Why did Platonism help Augustine read the Bible like a Christian?
What did Augustine and Athanasius, Origen and the Cappadocians, Boethius and Aquinas all have in common? They all critically appropriated Platonism. Platonism was not a set of doctrines that proved convenient. Rather, Platonism was an epic, even revolutionary outlook on transcendent reality that defied a materialistic understanding of God and the world. For example, Platonism…
Read MoreWhy did Platonism help Augustine read the Bible like a Christian? John Peter Kenney and Matthew Barrett
What did Augustine and Athanasius, Origen and the Cappadocians, Boethius and Aquinas all have in common? They all critically appropriated Platonism. Platonism was not a set of doctrines that proved convenient. Rather, Platonism was an epic, even revolutionary outlook on transcendent reality that defied a materialistic understanding of God and the world. For example, Platonism…
Read MoreWhy Have We Lost Transcendence?
In his dense little volume, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis warned against the devolution of education he saw in his own day. Fleeing the scene was the old understanding of education as virtue formation. No longer were students expected to search for the good, the true, and the beautiful so as to be shaped…
Read MoreThe Enduring Gospel
We’ve got a box in our home where we keep a battered blue and white badge. Anyone of a certain age who grew up in the UK will probably recognize it. It marks me (Sarah) out as having been a runner-up in a competition organized by the children’s TV show Blue Peter. To have a…
Read MoreOn the Promise of Systematic Theology
I just returned from Columbia International University in South Carolina where I gave three plenary addresses for the ETS regional meeting. As many have experienced, flying these days is exhausting. Both on the way there and the way back I had to be rerouted to another airline after hours of delays. And yet, sitting in…
Read MoreThe Lord Reigns
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice;…
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