What Is the Center for Classical Theology?
The Center for Classical Theology exists to contemplate God and all things in relation to God by listening with humility to his word with the wisdom of the Great Tradition. The purpose of CCT is to create a renewed vision for theology today in the spirit of faith seeking understanding.
Annual Lecture
James Dolezal
forthcoming
Location
November 16th at 7:00pm
Denver Art Museum
2026 Annual Lecture
Annual Lecture
CCT will host an annual lectureship by a theologian. In the aftermath of modernism’s deconstruction of dogmatics, each lectureship is committed to rebuilding and renewing dogmatics by retrieving the church catholic (universal)—from the church fathers to the medieval and Protestant scholastics—so that we can know God according to his First Principles.
CCT summons the next generation of theologians to exemplify a biblical reasoning, rational contemplation, and reformed catholicity that directs classical theology to its spiritual end and most blessed hope: beholding the beauty of the Lord.
-Matthew Barrett, Director of CCT
New Studies in Classical Theology
Each annual lecture will be expanded and published as a volume in the New Studies in Classical Theology series, edited by Matthew Barrett. NSCT does not rehearse modern approaches to theology but puts forward fresh studies that encourage Protestants to retrieve the theological method and confessional commitments of the Great Tradition to advance theology today.
NSCT is devoted to a theological theology, one that constructs a cathedral adorned with systematic precision and transcendent beauty, integrating each doctrinal domain for the purpose of thinking God’s thoughts after him. Each volume models biblical reasoning, faith seeking understanding, and reformed catholicity.
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Pillars of Christian Dogmatics series
The Pillars of Christian Dogmatics series (IVP Academic) seeks to foster contemplation of the triune God through the retrieval of classical theology for the church and the world. Featuring field-leading scholars, each volume offers an intensive study of key topics in systematic theology using exegetical, historical, philosophical, and doctrinal resources, while simultaneously embodying the interpretive commitments exhibited across the Great Tradition. PDC aims to recover theology as a science, built on those First Principles that give theology certainty and lead the theologian to the truth about reality.
Sample forthcoming volumes include:
Christology, Matthew Barrett
The Christian Life, by Adonis Vidu
The Trinity, Christopher Holmes
Scripture, Harrison Perkins
Anthropology, Thaddeus Williams
etc.
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The Scholastic Award
In the spirit of Protestant Scholastics such as Francis Turretin, Peter van Mastricht, John Owen, Richard Hooker, and more, candidates for the Scholastic Award will follow the format of the Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas and submit a disputed theological question. That question is followed by a reply designed “to lead listeners into the truth they strive to understand.” An excellent reply will exhibit precision to advance theological clarity, fidelity, and beauty.
The winner will be published in The Journal of Classical Theology.
Read the InstructionsPrior Lectures
