Credo Podcast

If the beatific vision is the mind’s eye seeing the divine essence, then what does the beatific vision have to do with love? Could it be that the beatific vision… Download Audio

Sitting in a classroom and going to chapel in the middle of the week is not seminary but a Bible study, says president Bryan Hollon. If we are theologically forming… Download Audio

Suffering, so it would seem, appears contrary to our ascent to God, as if a barrier to the Beatific Vision. However, in scripture God ordains suffering as the path by… Download Audio

Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” In this Credo Conference message, Matthew Barrett builds up to Jesus’ words by first asking why God… Download Audio

The apostle Paul said that the beatific vision is the Christian’s blessed hope, and the Great Tradition believed the Christian’s greatest happiness will be experienced when we one day see… Download Audio

God has in his mind ideas of the things he makes. He is the grand architect. Did you know that some of these ideas in the mind of God can… Download Audio

The heresy of Apollinarianism has made a comeback today. But if Christ does not assume a human mind, how can he heal our human mind? New video between Dominic Legge,… Download Audio

Michael Bird and Matthew Barrett both used to be Baptists. Then their understanding of baptism changed. Why? In different ways they both realized that the scriptures, Old and New Testament… Download Audio

One of today’s leading theologians in matters of Christology is Dominic Legge, O.P. His book The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a penetrating look… Download Audio

Garrigou-Lagrange is one of the most important theologians of the last century. He had that rare gift of illuminating Thomism for a modern world. Or we could say, to steal… Download Audio

Is supernatural theology an art or a science? The way some do theology today you would think theology is an art, as if its principles originate from our own mind… Download Audio

When Matthew Barrett left the SBC to become Anglican, one of the major reasons why was the SBC’s rejection of the Nicene Creed’s inclusion in the Baptist Faith and Message,… Download Audio

When was the last time you heard of a member of a baptistic Christian commune becoming an Anglican priest? On this episode of Credo podcast, Dr. Gerald McDermott, author of… Download Audio

Philosopher theologian, Paul Helm, recently died and is now with our Lord. You can read Matthew Barrett’s reflection on the life and legacy of you Helm here. Listen to Paul’s… Download Audio

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” And then he raised Lazarus from the dead. What does John 11 tell us about God and his governance of history?… Download Audio

In this episode of Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett and Rev. Greg Peters continue their conversation about Anglican distinctives, captured in Greg’s new book, Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction. Barrett and Peters… Download Audio

What happens when a Baptist theologian is confronted with the beauty of Anglicanism? Matthew Barrett, with this episode’s guest Greg Peters, discusses his recent move from the SBC to Anglicanism… Download Audio

How can detailed discussions about Trinitarian processions and missions move you to greater love of God and understanding of scripture? In this episode of Credo podcast, Dr. Harrison Perkins, author of… Download Audio

Most of us recognize that modern culture overvalues utilitarian content that can be grasped quickly, but what can atone for this deficit of beauty? In this episode of Credo podcast,… Download Audio

Communion in the Book of Common Prayer is a movement of ascent, as the Lord lifts us up into the very presence of Christ. The English reformers recited the sursum… Download Audio

To this day, the Book of Common Prayer has been unsurpassed. For five hundred years now its biblical beauty has penetrated the hearts of Christians. Some say the prayer book… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

Oftentimes, theologians will approach the doctrine of Christology in an isolated way, rarely bringing the doctrine of the Trinity into the discussion. As a result, we have succumbed to many… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo podcast, Dr. Matthew Barrett talks with D. A. Carson, emeritus professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and cofounder of The Gospel… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

After Michael Horton’s address, “If Reformed, then catholic: Revisiting Sola Scriptura” at the Center for Classical Theology, he was joined by G.K. Beale and Craig Carter for a time of… Download Audio

What makes heaven, heaven? Whereas many evangelicals today might point to a number of things, including resurrected bodies, a resurrected cosmos, freedom from sin, and reunion with departed loved ones,… Download Audio

Was sola scriptura the invention of the Reformation? Or were Protestants retrieving the church’s view of scritpure, from the church fathers to the best of the medieval scholastics? At the… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Sam Parkison and Keith Mathison continue their conversation on Mathison’s new book, Toward a Reformed Apologetics: A Critique of the Thought of Cornelius… Download Audio

Who was Cornelius Van Til, and what is presuppositional apologetics? In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Samuel Parkison interviews Keith Mathison on his new book, Toward a Reformed Apologetics:… Download Audio

Is “Catholic Protestant” an oxymoron? What does Protestantism have to offer to a generation of Christians hungry for tradition and warm-hearted catholicity? In this episode, Sam Parkison interviews Wyatt Graham,… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Sam Parkison joins with Matthew Barrett (Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary), Ronni Kurtz (Assistant Professor of Theology at Cedarville… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo podcast, Dr. Sam Parkison and Dr. Ronni Kurtz continue their mini-series on classical theology. In this episode in particular, they discuss the classical doctrine… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo podcast, Sam Parkison and Ronni Kurtz continue their mini-series on classical theology. In this episode in particular, they discuss the classical doctrine of divine… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo podcast, Dr. Sam Parkison and Dr. Ronni Kurtz continue their mini-series on classical theology. In this episode in particular, they discuss the classical doctrine… Download Audio

Why is classical theology meaningful for the Christian life? Classical doctrines like divine simplicity, divine satiety, or divine immutability can feel somewhat detached from our everyday life. However, they actually… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Ronni Kurtz and Dr. Sam Parkison interview Dr. Matthew Barrett about the Systematic Theology book he is currently working on. While they… Download Audio

Welcome back to the Credo Colloquy, where leading theologians delve into the pressing issues of theology in today’s church. In this ongoing series, Credo Editor-in-Chief Matthew Barrett sits down with… Download Audio

Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God. Naturally, when we read the Bible, we try to find not only the literal meaning, but also the spiritual meaning of… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

What is the meaning of intellectual life? In modern education, educators and students alike are often disillusioned by the attitude prevalent in educational institutions that emphasizes usefulness and practicality rather… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

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… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Alliance, Credo Fellows John Fesko, Fred Sanders, and Scott Swain join Matthew Barrett to discuss the Holy Spirit and the  eternal spiration of the… Download Audio