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Friendship to the Nth Power: Tolkien, a movie review
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…
Read MoreMagic, Good Spells, and Poetry in Service of Praise: Part 1
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…
Read MoreThe Restorative Potential of Beauty
Jon Tyson, a pastor in New York City, recently reflected on a conversation he had with Tim Keller in 2006. Tyson quotes Keller, “We are exposed to so much brokenness in the city, we must constantly expose our hearts and minds to beauty.” Keller captures the significant restorative potential of beauty as it stands in contrast…
Read MorePodcast Throwback! What does Plato have to do with Jesus? Matthew Barrett and Louis Markos
It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools? ― C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle If you are doing theology, you are seeking an understanding of the truth. In the ancient world, few claimed the title of truth-seeker more wholeheartedly than Plato. Though he lived before Christ…
Read More10 Questions with Dan DeWitt
Philosophers are lovers of wisdom. As Proverbs instructs, true philosophers must ground wisdom in the fear of the Lord (1:7). But the philosopher must never move past this foundation. The fear of the Lord must pervade all philosophy for a Christian to truly contemplate the good, beautiful, and true. Only then may Christians sing the…
Read MoreLonging for Faith
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…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: What Does Plato have to do with Jesus?
It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools? ― C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle If you are doing theology, you are seeking an understanding of the truth. In the ancient world, few claimed the title of truth-seeker more wholeheartedly than Plato. Though he lived before Christ…
Read MoreIt’s all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools? ― C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle If you are doing theology, you are seeking an understanding of the truth. In the ancient world, few claimed the title of truth-seeker more wholeheartedly than Plato. Though he lived before Christ…
Read MoreCredo Fellow Recap
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…
Read MoreRetrieving an Ancient Sacramental Ecology: Series Recap
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…
Read MoreCredo Fellow Highlight: Louis Markos
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…
Read MoreAs we have seen, according to Tolkien and Lewis, it is the materialist for whom a tree is never more than a tree. For the Christian, however, the tree is good, purposeful, spiritual, and part of a great plan. Soon after Lynn White, Jr., blamed the Judeo-Christian tradition for our ecological crisis, cultural apologist Francis…
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