Posts by Timothy Gatewood
New Credo Podcast: What Does the Ascension Have to do with the Kingdom of God?
The ascension of Christ is often given far too little attention. What is the ascension for? Is it a minor detail tacked onto the end of the story of Christ’s resurrection? And what is Christ doing in his ascended state now? Far from passively waiting for the moment of his return, Christ is interceding for…
Read MoreWhy is Inseparable Operations Such a Hard Sell?
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles by Adonis Vidu. Vidu is professor of theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Atonement, Law, and Justice: The Cross in Historical and Cultural Contexts; Theology after Neo- Pragmatism; Postliberal Theological…
Read MoreAn Appropriate Pact
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles by Jake Rainwater. Rainwater is the Assistant Registrar and a Ph. D student in systematic theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His research interests include the doctrine of sanctification, soteriology, and theological methodology.…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Why Must God be One to be Three?
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. According to philosopher Ronald Nash, the doctrine of divine simplicity has a PR problem. However, contrary to the claims of its opponents, the belief that God is one is essential to biblical Christianity and classical theism. Quite…
Read MoreThe Tragedy of Chronological Snobbery
The older I get, the more often I find myself coming back to the wisdom of C.S. Lewis. For those who have been immersed in his writings for years, his ever-relevance produces a renewable sense of amazement. He seems to speak out from his mid-twentieth century grave directly to so many of our pressing questions.…
Read MoreHope Beyond Heaven and Justice Now
An angry mob seizes an innocent man on the street. They beat him with rocks. They drag him as a lifeless animal and dump him in an unmarked place. They leave him for dead in dust and blood. They walk home, unaccountable. Many Christians crave heaven as an escape from such unjust realities on earth.…
Read MoreDemonstrating the Existence of God
In a recent article I discussed what would be entailed in recovering the Great Tradition of metaphysics that was presupposed by those who wrote the Protestant confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries. Many Protestants today do not understand what it means to be a Protestant Christian because they cannot understand the theology of the…
Read MoreOne on One about the Three in One: A Series of Theological Conversations on the Trinity
Over the past several weeks, Credo Magazine has highlighted a series of conversations between various theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. Each conversation has focused on a different chapter from Barrett’s new book: Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). The topics covered include the eternal generation of…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Trinity with Fred Sanders and Matthew Barrett.
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this episode, Fred Sanders and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 4 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Sanders and Barrett explore the way the missions reveal the processions of the Trinity, and…
Read MoreEqual in Glory, Coeternal in Majesty
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with KJ Drake. Drake is Assistant Professor of History at Redeemer University in Hamilton, Otario. He is the author of The Flesh of the World: The extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy.…
Read MoreOvercome Evil with Good
It took five hours for someone to pull together enough courage to tell missionary Gladys Staines that her husband and two young sons were dead. Graham Staines, fifty-eight, had been working with leprosy patients in India since he was twenty-four years old. He cared for the sick, preached the gospel, worked on Bible translation and…
Read MoreSimplicity and Trinity, Friends or Foes?
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with Ryan Hurd. Hurd is a teaching fellow at The Davenant Institute and is systematic theologian whose area of expertise is doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity. He has written a number of…
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