Credo Podcast

What did Augustine and Athanasius, Origen and the Cappadocians, Boethius and Aquinas all have in common? They all critically appropriated Platonism. Platonism was not a set of doctrines that proved… Download Audio

Reformed and Scholastic are often considered antithetical to one another, as if the use of the scholastic method or the retrieval of its philosophy and theology is a betrayal of… Download Audio

Who was one of the great influences on today’s leading theologians and university presidents? James Montgomery Boice. Educated at Harvard University and Princeton Seminary, the late James Montgomery Boice was… Download Audio

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but irrigate deserts.” With these words C.S. Lewis opened The Abolition of Man. Lewis spent his life standing against the modern… Download Audio

Many moderns constructed their doctrine of the Trinity according to Rahner’s rule, which says the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity and the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity. But… Download Audio

What are eternal processions? The language of “processions” may be foreign to some today, but the Great Tradition capitalized on this language to describe the Trinity and keep heresy at… Download Audio

Bruce Gordon, an expert on ecclesiastical history from Yale and author on Zwingli, unveils the often-overlooked figure of Huldrych Zwingli. The conversation highlights Zwingli's pivotal yet eclipsed contributions to the Reformation, detailing his complex relationship with Calvin and the conflict over the Lord's Supper with Luther. Gordon shares insights into Zwingli's journey from humble beginnings to a revolutionary preacher, his tension-fraught ties with Erasmus, and the military dilemmas he faced, emphasizing the dramatic stakes of his religious convictions.

The doctrine of God’s impassibility may seem counterintuitive to many Christians today, but actually, impassibility is an essential belief of Christian orthodoxy. Impassibility was not only affirmed in the great… Download Audio

Thomas Jefferson continues to elicit a wide-range of reactions. Jefferson had a brilliant mind and engaged with Christianity in ways that were both sympathetic and critical. Along with many others… Download Audio

From his books to the chalkboard, R.C. Sproul communicated the deep things of God in an accessible way. When asked what the core of his legacy was all about he… Download Audio