Archive for November 2025
The Reformation as Renewal: A New Class by Matthew Barrett
This January, join Trinity Anglican Seminary and Dr. Matthew Barrett as we explore the English Reformation in a 5 day intensive course. By analyzing primary texts, Dr. Barrett will lead us in an encounter with the thought and wisdom of these great reformers, especially in regards to their emphasis on catholicity. By analyzing their recovery…
Read MoreHow to Think Like a Thomist: Substance and Accidents
The world is not a place of static individuals, but of active realities. Thomas Aquinas thought that all of reality could be classified according to the distinction between substance and accident. For Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, substances are not inert or static entities. Whatever exists is active, and the more being a thing has, the…
Read MoreHow to Think Like a Thomist: Nature and Natures
Is there such a thing as human nature, or is that simply a conventional idea? Think about an adolescent; that adolescent used to be a baby; that baby used to be an embryo. Then, you look at that same human being ten years later and it is an adult… and then later it is an…
Read MoreThe Legacy of Nicaea & the Future of Anglicanism
Dr. Matthew Barrett delivered the John H Rodgers Lecture Series at Trinity Anglican Seminary. You can read the lecture on Credo or Dr. Barrett’s Substack. Modern theology is marked by a radical redefinition of God, even a departure from the creeds of Christianity, and it has penetrated every corner of Christendom. In this John Rodgers…
Read MoreHow to Think Like a Thomist: Universals and Particulars, Genus and Species
“Each stage of cognitive development is grounded in the previous stage and the structure of the world itself helps us to ascend from the Cave of Ignorance. It is only because the world offers a course along which man’s inquiries can run that his desire to know has any hope of being satisfied.” – Jonathan…
Read MoreNicaea and the Future of Anglicanism
On October 30th Matthew Barrett delivered the John Rodgers Lecture series at Trinity Anglican Seminary. Dr. Barrett is Research Professor of Theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary. He is Theologian-in-Residence for Anselm House at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church. He is the author of award winning books, such as Simply Trinity (Baker) and On Classical Trinitarianism (IVP Academic). He is currently writing…
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