Archive for October 2025
How to Think Like a Thomist: The Real Distinction
If everything in this world that we experience receives its existence from another, then it can only be explained with reference to the others that cause it to be. Now, regardless of how far back along this causal chain you pass the buck, you cannot have an actual infinite series of these causes. There…
Read MoreHow to Think Like a Thomist: Essence and Existence
The Pre-Socratics tried to explain everything as elemental fire or water or spirit. Many contemporary scientists try to explain everything as ordered bundles of chemicals, molecules, and atoms. The problem here is that these building blocks themselves are diverse. How do we account for that? The attempt to reduce everything to material bits is ill-fated.…
Read MoreWhat is the Beatific Vision?
The beatific vision is the ultimate creaturely experience, when we see God in heaven. Few doctrines are as universal throughout church history and yet as misunderstood and neglected today as the beatific vision, according to Gavin Ortlund. In this video he seeks to clarify what the beatific vision means. And in case you missed it,…
Read MoreWhy I Became Anglican: Holy Eucharist
In this episode of Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett and Rev. Greg Peters continue their conversation about Anglican distinctives, captured in Greg’s new book, Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction. Barrett and Peters focus in on the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, and why it truly is a means of grace, making it a true sacrament. For Peters, the…
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Becoming Anglican: An Unexpected Journey
We are becoming Anglican. I never thought I would write those words. Up until recently, just over a year or so, the Anglican tradition was never seriously on my mind aside from brief thoughts of “those people over there that I don’t quite understand.” Then the Lord saw fit in his good providence that this…
Read MoreWhy I Became Anglican: The Liturgy
What happens when a Baptist theologian is confronted with the beauty of Anglicanism? Matthew Barrett, with this episode’s guest Greg Peters, discusses his recent move from the SBC to Anglicanism and describes Anglican’s beautiful, participatory, traditional and scripture-filled liturgy. Rev. Peters, priest and professor at Biola University and Nashotah House Theological Seminary, connects Barrett’s experience…
Read MoreHow to Think Like a Thomist: Form and Matter
In asking the question, one asks for the essences of things, or more simply, what they are. The ancient philosopher Plato called the answers to these questions the “forms.” Aristotle believed in the forms, but saw them as existing in things themselves. In this episode, you’ll learn how all things of nature are composed of…
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