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The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on The Aseity of God. The following is an excerpt from Jason Duesing’s column review, Friendship to the Nth Power: Tolkien, a movie review. Jason Duesing serves as the academic Provost and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He came to MBTS after serving…
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“We are your friends, Frodo.” -J. R. R. Tolkien [1] “Christ, who said to the disciples, ‘Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,’ can truly say to every group of Christian friends ‘You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.’” -C. S. Lewis [2] The influence…
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The celebration of the earth as a gift of God was a strong tradition in the early church. Unfortunately, this has not always been the case, especially among Protestant churches. While scientific discovery and technological innovation led to advances in industry and standards of living, they also brought on the “acids of modernity” that ate…
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Alister McGrath’s new biography of C. S. Lewis with Tyndale House has been published recently and is titled: C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet. Here are two commendations for the book: Alister McGrath sheds new light on the life of the incomparable C. S. Lewis. This is an important book. Eric…
Read MoreBy Matthew Claridge– In the back of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun there is an appendix that contains a poem entitled, The Prophecy of the Sibyl. I am still a little confused whether this poem is Tolkien’s own creation or a translation of some other Nordic poem. Christopher Tolkein’s introduction to the…
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Tom Holland’s, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (Basic, 2019), is an impressionistic romp through 2000 years of Western history by a person who knows enough about the subject to make it interesting and enjoyable. The book is divided into three parts: Antiquity, Christendom and Modernity. Whether Holland is conscious of it or not, this…
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Recently, Credo featured a blog series written by James C. Ungureanu about the need to recover an ancient sacramental ecology. In these essays, Ungureanu recounts the history of sacred ecology, from the enchanted view of the ancients to the naturalistic and frankly unenchanted conception of nature that arose in the post-Enlightenment world. As he traces this…
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Of modern 20th-century novelists, J.R.R. Tolkien is, in my opinion, undoubtedly the best. And I agree wholeheartedly with those surveys done in the UK at the turn of this century that placed him way out in front of modernist novelists. Now, in The Hobbit, there is a great description of the elf-lord Elrond’s house in…
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By Matthew Barrett – One of my favorite things about the New Year is looking ahead to all the books that were just released or will be released. Here are some of the books I am looking forward to reading in the New Year. I anticipate that many of these books will be fine reads,…
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I do not read nearly as much poetry as I ought, but I read enough to know it is nourishing to the soul. There is something about poetry that allows one to tap into the deep undercurrents of reality. If “the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaim his handiworks” (Ps…
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Credo is Latin for “I believe.” From the creeds of the Church Fathers to the confessions of the Reformation, Christians have been faithful to confess the faith once for all delivered to the saints. Credo retrieves this classical and reformational heritage in order to create and cultivate theological renewal today. By bridging the gap between church…
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The new issue of Credo Magazine, “The Great Tradition,” focuses on the early Church Fathers. The following is an excerpt from the issue’s featured interview with Craig Carter. Craig Carter serves as Professor of Theology at Tyndale University in Toronto and as Theologian in Residence at Westney Heights Baptist Church. He was kind enough to…
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