Archive for July 2024
New Credo Magazine Issue: The Revival of Classical Education
Education’s brightest future is grounded in its ancient past. Classical education, in which students are formed by the Great Books and classical virtues, is experiencing a renaissance. It’s true, the difference between a classical model of education and its modern counterparts could not be more stark, but the contributors to this issue of Credo Magazine…
Read MoreThe Beauty of Divine Simplicity
One of the best questions we can ask is also the most challenging: “What is God?”[1] As the Church has searched Scripture for answers it has consistently used a surprising word to describe the divine Being: simplicity. God is simple—not in the sense of “easily understood” but as “being free from division into parts, and…
Read MoreThe Doctrine that Divided the Church – TruthUnites
In this video Credo Fellows Gavin Ortlund and Fred Sanders discuss the filioque, the doctrine that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. And both Gavin Ortlund and Fred Sanders will be speaking at our Credo Conference in Washington D.C. May 1-2, 2025! More information and registration is available here. Picture Credit: Lawerence…
Read MoreInferno, Canto 25
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 MoreWhat’s Cultural and What’s Truly Christian? The Evangelical Crisis: Karen Swallow Prior and Matthew Barrett
Many of us have benefitted from evangelicalism and had our faith formed by it. However, evangelicalism these days is in a crisis mode. It has fallen prey to the constant lust for power and dominion, both politically and culturally. Evangelicalism’s emphasis on conversion and winning souls has turned into an enterprise focused more on getting…
Read MoreWhat’s Cultural and What’s Truly Christian? The Evangelical Crisis: Karen Swallow Prior and Matthew Barrett
Many of us have benefitted from evangelicalism and had our faith formed by it. However, evangelicalism these days is in a crisis mode. It has fallen prey to the constant lust for power and dominion, both politically and culturally. Evangelicalism’s emphasis on conversion and winning souls has turned into an enterprise focused more on getting…
Read MoreWhy Christians Should Believe in Divine Simplicity
Why should Christians should believe in Divine Simplicity? First, Divine Simplicity is foundational to a Biblical doctrine of God. So, in the Bible, God is portrayed as supreme, unrivaled, and transcendent. You think of God revealing his name to Moses as “I am who I am” or the Apostle Paul saying that all things are…
Read MoreDivine Eternity
Dr. James Dolezal is professor of theology at Cairn University in Langhorne, PA and a Credo Fellow who has written this piece on God’s relationship to time. This is an excerpt of the original article, which you can read in full here in the St. Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology. Introduction Does God exist in time…
Read MoreThe Credo Conference
We are thrilled to announce the first ever Credo conference! Join us and Sola Media as we will celebrate the anniversary of the Nicene Creed at a two-day conference in Washington D.C. 1700 years after the Council of Nicea, the mystery of the Trinity remains at the heart of the Christian faith. Recovering Orthodoxy in…
Read MoreHow Classical Theism Has Shaped My Life
“Do you have a head-knowledge of God or a heart-knowledge of God?” I can still remember a youth leader and mentor in high school asking me a question, if not verbatim, then very similar to this. This somewhat common distinction in evangelical circles, drove at a central concern with how I approached my life of…
Read MoreProclaiming the Triune God – Samuel Parkison
Why should we teach on the Trinity?” Samuel Parkison delivers a message on the Doctrine of the Trinity at the UAE’s Council of Evangelical Churches’ quarterly meeting at the Ras Al-Khaima Evangelical Church Center in Ras Al-Khaima, on May 29, 2024. Read the recent announcement of Samuel Parkison to serve as the Director of Publishing…
Read MoreAquinas on Divine Impassibility
This is the last of three posts on theological connections between medieval and reformed theology. The Reformation was a re-formation, not a revolution, and the Reformed churches regarded themselves as catholic, building on the ecumenical creeds and the patristic and medieval theology, and paying great respect to the great doctors of the church, notably Thomas…
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