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Apr 4, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |Matthew Barrett |Michael Allen |Fred Sanders
Isn’t being dogmatic a bad thing? On the contrary, dogmatics is the lifeblood of the church. In this episode, Matthew Barrett is joined by Reformed theologian Michael Allen as they unravel the task of sacred theology. Together, they explore the intricacies involved in writing theology, discussing the significance dogmatics plays in shaping our understanding of faith and doctrine.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |Matthew Barrett
The passion of our Lord is nearly upon us, which has galvanized me to return to the incarnation and ask that ancient question, why did God become man? As you can imagine, this question is at the core of the Systematic Theology I am writing for Baker Academic. As I’ve chewed on this question, I have noticed that more often than not our default answer is a legal one. That is as it should be. In the vein of Romans 5, in Adam we face condemnation.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |J. V. Fesko
When new seminarians first begin their theological education I suspect they are overwhelmed with the tidal wave of new terminology that comes their way. Terms like eschatological, supralapsarian, kenotic christology, hapax legomenon, merism, and the like come flooding in and incites fear in the most intellectually stout-hearted students.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English
In this video, Credo Fellow Gavin Ortlund offers three reasons in about 5 minutes to accept the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, or the Lord’s Supper. VIDEO
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |Michael Allen
That we look forward to the blessed (or beatific) vision of God in the great hereafter means we are to live now in a heavenly-minded posture. Heavenly-mindedness follows in as much as the beatific vision trains our appetites ultimately to seek God and his presence above all else. We do well to ask how such a mentality shapes the life of the church today. Four elements seem pertinent. First, heavenly-mindedness alerts us to the fundamental rest found only in returning unto God himself.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |Brian Orr
Gregory, a bishop of Nyssa in 371, was part of the Cappadocian trio, who was instrumental in the development of Trinitarian orthodoxy. His theological prowess proved vital in response to the Arian and Sabellian heresies. Key to Gregory’s theology we find “an emergence of a pro-Nicene ‘grammar’ of divinity through his developed account of divine power,” conceived through a nature-power-activity formulation revealed in the created order and articulated in Scripture.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English
God’s Spirit unites believers to Christ, conforms them to his image, and equips them for witness and ministry. In The Giver of Life (Lexham), J. V. Fesko reflects on the person and work of the Holy Spirit in the application of Christ’s work for the salvation of sinners. Through a combination of biblical, historical, and theological study, Fesko illuminates the blessing of God’s presence with his people.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |J. V. Fesko
One of the casualties of the modern theological curriculum is the division of the different theological disciplines. In the nineteenth-century theologians created the fourfold division of theology: biblical studies, church history, theology, and practical theology. While there are undoubtedly other factors at play, such as the distancing of the theological academy from the church, I think one of the casualties of dividing the disciplines was the separation of theology and piety.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English
I did not need Samuel James’ excellent book Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age to convince me I’m distracted. Like many of you, I feel the palpable pull toward consumption and triviality when waiting in line or stuck at a stoplight. What I did need, however, was James’ reminder that the distraction of the human heart is not new to our digital world. In On the Incarnation, Athanasius summarizes the condition of fallen humanity.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
credomag.com | Lance English |Fred Sanders |J. V. Fesko |Matthew Barrett
You’ve most likely been told that Thomas Aquinas is off limits, a theologian who will corrupt Protestants and turn them into Roman Catholics. And yet, Protestant history tells a different story: many of our Protestant forefathers did not merely retrieve Aquinas but thought of him as part of the same tradition they belonged to in the end.
