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Jul 23, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Matthew Barrett |James E. Dolezal
Many of us have benefitted from evangelicalism and had our faith formed by it. However, evangelicalism these days is in a crisis mode. It has fallen prey to the constant lust for power and dominion, both politically and culturally. Evangelicalism’s emphasis on conversion and winning souls has turned into an enterprise focused more on getting more people in rather than on the message of the Gospel itself.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Spencer McCorkel |James E. Dolezal
Dr. James Dolezal is professor of theology at Cairn University in Langhorne, PA and a Credo Fellow who has written this piece on God’s relationship to time. This is an excerpt of the originial article, which you can read in full here. IntroductionDoes God exist in time or independently of it? Is he timelessly eternal, or does his life pass through an everlasting succession of moments? Most Christians agree that God transcends time in some fashion, but how, exactly?
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Matthew Barrett |James E. Dolezal
We are living in a day when the Christian church faces challenges both inward and outward. Outwardly, we see Islam advancing as a world religion. Inwardly, we are experiencing a divisive period in our church regarding doctrine of orthodoxy like the Trinity. In this episode, Matthew Barrett and David and Jennifer McNutt, the authors of the book Know the Theologians, introduce the eastern theologian John of Damascus who is sometimes called the last of the church fathers.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Matthew Barrett |James E. Dolezal |Zena Hitz
We tend to have an ideal picture of the early centuries of the church. The early church was a period of flourishing and growth, but it was also a period of persecution. The early church had hardships both externally and internally. On the one hand, early Christians had to deal with a misrepresentation of the Christian faith in a society hostile to their beliefs. On the other hand, they had to deal with distortions of their teaching by heresies that rose up quietly among them.
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May 28, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Spencer McCorkel |James E. Dolezal |Matthew Barrett
What is the analogy of being and why is it so essential to the Creator-creature distinction? In Part 2 of this Credo Colloquy, James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett continue their conversation on the importance of Thomas Aquinas but this time talk about why our language for God is analogical rather than univocal. As it turns out, thinking analogically is key to understanding everything from the language the Bible uses to describe God to our participation in the likeness of God and much more.
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May 28, 2024 | 
credomag.com | James E. Dolezal |Matthew Barrett |Zena Hitz |Michael Allen
What is the analogy of being and why is it so essential to the Creator-creature distinction? In Part 2 of this Credo Colloquy, James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett continue their conversation on the importance of Thomas Aquinas but this time talk about why our language for God is analogical rather than univocal. As it turns out, thinking analogically is key to understanding everything from the language the Bible uses to describe God to our participation in the likeness of God and much more.
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May 16, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Spencer McCorkel |James E. Dolezal |Matthew Barrett
Why do my favorite Puritans seem to with some frequency go back to Aquinas?” James Dolezal came to know Aquinas through the works of Reformed Scholastics (from Stephen Charnock to John Owen) who were appealing to Aquinas and commentators on Aquinas in their works. Once you read Aquinas and understand how he contemplates God and all things in relation to God, you can see why the Reformed tradition engaged often with writings not only by Aquinas but his heirs.
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May 16, 2024 | 
credomag.com | James E. Dolezal |Matthew Barrett |Zena Hitz |Michael Allen
Why do my favorite Puritans seem to with some frequency go back to Aquinas?” James Dolezal came to know Aquinas through the works of Reformed Scholastics (from Stephen Charnock to John Owen) who were appealing to Aquinas and commentators on Aquinas in their works. Once you read Aquinas and understand how he contemplates God and all things in relation to God, you can see why the Reformed tradition engaged often with writings not only by Aquinas but his heirs.
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May 8, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Spencer McCorkel |James E. Dolezal
What is the analogy of being and why is it so essential to the Creator-creature distinction? In Part 2 of this Credo Colloquy, James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett continue their conversation on the importance of Thomas Aquinas but this time talk about why our language for God is analogical rather than univocal. As it turns out, thinking analogically is key to understanding everything from the language the Bible uses to describe God to our participation in the likeness of God and much more.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
credomag.com | James E. Dolezal
Why do my favorite Puritans seem to with some frequency go back to Aquinas?” James Dolezal came to know Aquinas through the works of Reformed Scholastics (from Stephen Charnock to John Owen) who were appealing to Aquinas and commentators on Aquinas in their works. Once you read Aquinas and understand how he contemplates God and all things in relation to God, you can see why the Reformed tradition engaged often with writings not only by Aquinas but his heirs.
