Archive for September 2023
Inferno, Canto 19
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 MorePodcast Throwback: Why Do Christians Need Natural Theology?
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork (Psalm 119:1). With this reverberating tribute to God’s design, we learn that David, a man who had the special revelation of God through Moses, can also appreciate what it is that the natural order teaches about God. Many Christians today acknowledge God’s…
Read MoreA Teleological Argument for God’s Existence
An undisclosed number of years ago, I shared a house with four other young lads while we attended a nearby Bible college. I was the youngest at eighteen years old and the eldest was in his early twenties. One of the stipulations of our staying in the house was that we kept the place in…
Read MoreSlow Down and Ordain Elders Carefully
As a former church planter I was desperate to establish my congregation. In the technical speak of the Book of Church Order, I wanted to see the mission work I pastored become particularized as a congregation. The difference between a mission work and particular congregation is that the latter has a permanent duly elected pastor,…
Read MoreInferno, Canto 18
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 MoreWhy I am Not a Biblicist: Craig A. Carter joins Matthew Barrett for Credo Colloquy
Welcome to the second Credo Colloquy, an exclusive dialogue between Credo Fellows. In this new series leading theologians engage one another on some of the most important issues in theology facing the church. In this second colloquy, editor-in-chief, Matthew Barrett sat down with Credo Fellow, Craig A. Carter. In this conversation, Carter describes why he…
Read MoreWhy I’m Not a Biblicist: Craig A. Carter joins Matthew Barrett for a Credo Colloquy
Welcome to the second Credo Colloquy, an exclusive dialogue between Credo Fellows. In this new series leading theologians engage one another on some of the most important issues in theology facing the church. In this second colloquy, editor-in-chief, Matthew Barrett sat down with Credo Fellow, Craig A. Carter. In this conversation, Carter describes why he…
Read MoreChristian Realism, Universals, and Natural Theology
Paul Tillich once said that “medieval realism is almost the exact opposite of what we call realism today.” To medieval realists, it is what you cannot physically see that is really real: i.e., God, and all the transcendent meanings and intrinsic qualities and purposes that God has gifted to creation. Superlatively real truths were called…
Read MorePodcast Throwback: Thomas Aquinas, Friend or Foe? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett
Why are evangelicals so unfamiliar with one of the greatest theologians in the history of the church, Thomas Aquinas? Is Thomas a friend or a foe to evangelicals today? Was Thomas first and foremost a philosopher or a theologian? Was Thomas a rationalist as some would suggest? What advantages are there to embracing a Reformed Thomism?…
Read MoreThe Gospel of God
Calvin famously opens his Institutes with the observation that all true and sound wisdom consists in knowledge of God and knowledge of the self. But “which one precedes and brings forth the other is not easy to discern,” on account of how many bonds hold them together, and the way these two knowledges mutually presuppose…
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