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New Credo Podcast! What is the Doctrine of Participation?

, · September 20, 2023

“For from him and through him and to him are all things…” (Rom. 11:36)

What does it mean to participate in God? In what ways do we share in Christ? Protestants today are oftentimes unfamiliar with or even suspicious towards the doctrine of participating in God. As some claim, does participation confuse the creation and the Creator?

In this episode, Andrew Davison joins Matthew Barrett to show how this doctrine is in fact essential to our understanding of Christian theology itself. Participation in God affects everything in theology from the doctrine of creation and the image of God to salvation and the telos of the Christian life. What is the happy life? What is virtue? How do these inform our eschatology? All of these questions and more are the focus of this week’s episode on participation in God. Ultimately, everything in the world has God as its origin—and as we will see, our final destination of happiness in seeing God is nothing less than a participation in God himself.

Andrew Davison

Revd Dr. Andrew Davison serves as Starbridge Associate Professor in Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow in Theology and Dean of Chapel, Corpus Christi College. He is also a 2022-24 Visiting Fellow of the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton. He is the author of Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2019).

Matthew Barrett

Matthew Barrett is Research Professor of Theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary. He has been appointed the McDonald Agape visiting scholar at Dominican House of Studies and the Thomistic Institute. He is the founder of Credo. He is the author of award-winning books like Simply Trinity and On Classical Theology. Currently he is writing a Systematic Theology with Baker Academic. He is the theologian-in-residence of Anselm House at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church. Subscribe to his newsletter to receive updates on his writing.

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