Posts by Spencer McCorkel
What is the Beatific Vision?
The beatific vision is the ultimate creaturely experience, when we see God in heaven. Few doctrines are as universal throughout church history and yet as misunderstood and neglected today as…
Read MoreA Letter to Every Student
We are living in a day when universities are terminating their liberal arts education. The reasoning of these universities is quite modern: these degrees are not practical. No obvious job…
Read MoreMarketers and Mystics: How Worship is Reshaping Evangelicalism
I have not read a book that helped me understand the twentieth century Protestant theological landscape as much as this one in a long time. A good book of history…
Read MoreThomas Aquinas on Divine Simplicity
In their metaphysical inquiry into God, what He is and how He is to be understood, medieval theologians, trained in the conceptual language of Greek philosophy, placed the attribute of…
Read MoreAn Invitation to Participate in the True Myth
What is the relationship between Christianity, myth, and classical education? In this interview with Louis Markos, Credo editor Connor Shackelford sits down to ask him just that. Louis is a…
Read MoreMind and Heart
About eighty years ago, Mrs. Oswald Fleming (a British mystery novelist) gave a talk on education that has become notorious. In it, she said that students should learn fewer subjects…
Read MoreThe Liberality of Liberal Education
There used to be a distinction that signaled the difference between study for the sake of acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for some specific line of work or trade…
Read MoreIs Natural Theology in conflict with the Gospel? Credo Alliance
Scott Swain, Matthew Barrett, Fred Sanders, and JV Fesko team up in this second episode of the Credo Alliance to answer whether Natural Theology is consistent with the gospel. When…
Read MoreIs Natural Theology in conflict with the Gospel? Credo Alliance
Scott Swain, Matthew Barrett, Fred Sanders, and JV Fesko team up in this second episode of the Credo Alliance to answer whether Natural Theology is consistent with the gospel. When…
Read MoreOn Esteeming Natural Theology: Credo Alliance
Scott Swain, Matthew Barrett, Fred Sanders, and JV Fesko team up in this episode of the Credo Alliance to explain why Natural Theology matters, contrary to caricatures. In the last…
Read MoreOn Esteeming Natural Theology: Credo Alliance
Scott Swain, Matthew Barrett, Fred Sanders, and JV Fesko team up in this episode of the Credo Alliance to explain why Natural Theology matters, contrary to caricatures. In the last…
Read MoreNietzsche, Freud, and the Politics of Sex: Carl R. Trueman and Matthew Barrett
There’s been a drastic shift in the understanding of the self over the last 200 years. We now tend to think of ourselves as unencumbered, expressive individuals who are most…
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