Posts by Timothy Gatewood
Eavesdrop on a Theological Conversation: Recent Episodes of the Credo Podcast
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of theology? In the last several episodes of the Credo Podcast, the doctrine of the trinity has been on center stage. Some of the issues that have been covered include social trinitarianism, the doctrine of inseparable operations, the eternal functional subordination of the Son, the relationship between divine…
Read MoreSubordination or Simplicity?
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with James R. Gordon. Gordon teaches in the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College (IL), where he completed his PhD in systematic theology in 2015. He is the author of The Holy One in…
Read MoreReading Ezra-Nehemiah Theologically
The book of Ezra-Nehemiah—books in the Protestant canon but only one book in the Hebrew Bible—tell the story of the Jewish people’s return to the promised land. More specifically, it tells the story of God fulfilling his promise “through Jeremiah” (Ezra 1:1) to restore his people to the land. They have lived through the horrors…
Read More10 Weeks on the Trinity: Knowing the Trinity – Inseparable Operations
In this concluding lecture from the For the Church Institute, Matthew Barrett introduces his listeners to the doctrine of inseparable operations. This doctrine reveals that the external works of the Trinity are undivided and, indeed, indivisible. The triune God works as one because he is one. Barrett examines Ephesians 1, one of the richest trinitarian…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Since When Did the Trinity Go Social?
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this episode, Craig Carter and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 3 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Carter and Barrett discuss topics such as the legacy of Nicaea in light of…
Read MoreHow Then Shall We Theologize?
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the trinity. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles with Craig A. Carter. Carter is the author of Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis (Baker Academic, 2018) and Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine: Undivided Trinity
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here! Undivided Trinity. Every generation is tempted to forfeit an essential component of orthodox trinitarianism. Our generation is no exception. Not only modern theology but evangelical theology has grown suspicious towards the simplicity of God. Naturally, without simplicity evangelical theology risks segregating Father, Son, and Spirit. Taking…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Can We Trust the God of Our Fathers?
This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this video, James Eglinton and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 2 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Eglinton and Barrett engage the Nicene Creed, explain why the Fathers chose certain words and…
Read MoreNew Issue of Credo Magazine: The Undivided Trinity
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here! Undivided Trinity. Every generation is tempted to forfeit an essential component of orthodox trinitarianism. Our generation is no exception. Not only modern theology but evangelical theology has grown suspicious towards the simplicity of God. Naturally, without simplicity evangelical theology risks segregating Father, Son, and Spirit. Taking…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Trinity Drift and Evangelicalism
This is the first of a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this first video, Thomas Kidd, professor at Baylor University, and Matthew Barrett engage topics like: evangelicalism’s suspicion towards history and creeds, recent drift away from Nicene trinitarianism, the rise of social trinitarianism, the…
Read More10 Weeks on the Trinity: Breath, Gift, and Love – The Eternal Procession of the Spirit.
Anselm of Canterbury once said, “If the Spirit’s spiration is not true, then the Christian faith is destroyed.” Was Anselm overstating the importance of this doctrine? Matthew Barrett doesn’t think so. According to the Nicene Creed, the Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son. This means that the Spirit is not subordinate to…
Read MoreWhy Should We Affirm Christian Platonism? Part II: Systematic Reasons
In Part I, we looked at three historical reasons for affirming Christian Platonism. First, it is part of our Augustinian theological heritage, which is an integral part of historic Christian orthodoxy. Secondly, Christian Platonism is intricately bound up with the Nicene doctrine of God as expressed in the Nicene Creed and the Definition of Chalcedon…
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