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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…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Credo Fellows
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 MoreA Conversation with Louis Markos
If it is true that the average evangelical suffers from an anemic theology, then it is equally true that the average evangelical suffers from an anemic imagination. Too often Christians, particularly those burdened with a desire for more theological precision, think that reading classic works of literature is at best a waste of time and…
Read MoreWho Cut Us Off from the Good, the True, and the Beautiful?
If it is true that the average evangelical suffers from an anemic theology, then it is equally true that the average evangelical suffers from an anemic imagination. Too often Christians, particularly those burdened with a desire for more theological precision, think that reading classic works of literature is at best a waste of time and…
Read MoreContemplating God with the Great Tradition
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…
Read MoreContemplating God with the Great Tradition
Craig Carter serves as Professor of Theology at Tyndale University in Toronto and as Theologian in Residence at Westney Heights Baptist Church. Carter’s last book, Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis (Baker, 2018), sent shockwaves throughout the field of hermeneutics. That work, however, was never meant to stand alone.…
Read MoreThe new issue of Credo Magazine, “The Truth Inside the Lie,” focuses on the relationship between theology and fiction. The following is an excerpt from Louis Markos’s article, “Saving Mr. Scrooge: How Reading Charles Dickens Changed My Life.” Louis Markos, Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H.…
Read MoreThe Hound of Heaven
Admittedly as a kind of provocation to grab their attention, I have been known to declare while teaching a class that Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) is the greatest Christian novel ever written. One would never make such an unmeasured claim in print, of course. The most prudent qualifier would be “that I have read”…
Read MoreThe Book that Changed Science Fiction Forever
D une, by Frank Herbert, has been regarded by many as one of the most accomplished science fiction novels to come out of the twentieth century. It also continues to be one of the best-loved. Like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, which preceded it by a decade, Dune set a new benchmark in…
Read MoreThe Greatness of Insignificant Service
In his very insightful book, Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis advanced a novel approach to evaluating the quality of literature. Instead of putting the book in question under a microscope, and examining it with the eye of the trained critic, established criteria in hand, he suggested that we put the average reader of that book,…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here: The Aseity of God. Does God depend on you? Is he a needy God, one that relies on his creation not only for his existence but for his happiness and fulfillment? The instinct of many Christians is to answer yes to questions like these. In an effort…
Read MoreFriendship to the Nth Power
“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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